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yes. i’ve set up a planet, block storage, a couple groups, and have explored a lot of the software and the culture.
I’ve consumed the Understanding Urbit podcast and watched maybe another 10-15 hours on YT but haven’t played with it yet.
What do you see as the use case? I quite like the identity setup and the idea of quiet computing that Galen speaks about but the former seems to be better addressed here on Nostr, the latter is interesting but probably only valuable when the application ecosystem is further built out.
At some point, Urbit is going to be where it’s at. but currently, it does not function as much more than Slack built on a new network stack. The underlying tech is really quite amazing, and i was able to do some pretty cool things with it using ssh tunnels, completely bypassing the standard web. but you can’t search for individuals, or even interact with them. everything is group centered. it’s just not there yet. not to mention that the developer culture of Urbit is… weird. hard to describe. you have to see it for yourself.