I think in a couple years urbit addresses will be on an urbit native chain. They just used ethereum to bootstrap it.
But Urbit on Nostr would still be cool and totally possible. Use WASM for the compute stuff
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Urbit was cool but never really made a good product right ?
Urbit has been changing quite a bit. All the OS development has moved to Urbit Foundation ( urbit.org ). Tlon has become a product company that is focusing on a core app just called Tlon ( https://tlon.io ).
There is now competition with a fork of the OS called Plunder. But the urbit OS is also making huge strides in performance with a new Ares runtime ( https://x.com/hastuc_dibtux/status/1765075518637154374?s=46 )
And also there is research moving forward on native urbit. Urbit running on bare metal ( https://x.com/rovnys/status/1766183255097905157?s=46 )
Ya I check them out it's mainly vaporware from my experience.
It hasn’t been vaporware for a long time now. It’s more just about shoring up the vision. Download the Tlon app and see for yourself now. It’s totally usable.
Once Ares runtime arrives, I’ll probably get a native planet device so I can run my ship from my home
A peer to peer collaboration tool built on orbit. It only has 100 downloads from what I see. I don't see any use case really. I also critique nostr I don't mean to bully urbit. But why use urbit ? What's the benefits ? How is it better then signal ?
The Tlon app is literally just a messaging app. But behind the scenes, everything is running on your own urbit that you can self host if you wish.
Urbit is a new operating system built from the ground up. The basic gist is a solution to the problem of collapse and tech debt as seen here https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?si=Xh2uOLLR9it2CWms
An operating system that you own needs to be an operating system that is potentially understood by just one person. I like to think of Urbit as the Volvo of computers. Take it apart with just one set of wrenches.
Everything is “kelvin versioned” meaning it will eventually reach version zero where it never changes ever again. This is just fundamentally different from every other project in existence