I do love Rostra (and other P2P social things), but you will always run into this issue of compute.
People want a feeling of security and safety. They want Access Control Lists, friend requests, permissions. You need compute for that.
It’s why I still believe in Urbit. It’s the closest thing to a digital home we have. P2P social + safety and security. Users actually have their own compute. And it’s understandable where data lives (at my house, at your house, etc)
Urbit was 100% designed with cloud in mind, listen to the inventory... he just hoped that "confidential computing" would solve the trust issue... which at least Signal agrees with, but if you want to be a purist, it doesn't help that much, you need to trust the chip designers and other assumptions.
Laptops get closed often, fighting the cloud is not viable, but we can make all data E2ee so that the compute happen on your machine but data availability is handled by the cloud.
I’m really focusing on the ACLs / permissions UX though. E2EE doesn’t solve that.
I actually *like* that I can turn my Urbit off lol. If we want a forever running Urbit to hang out in, we can go to a “third space” like an Urbit run by a business.
