I suspect the reason Urbit is "hard to explain" is not because the what we're doing is hard to understand but because most people disagree with *why* we're doing it.
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What Urbit is: An attempt to make personal servers viable for consumers, so that the internet can go back to being between me and you, not between me and some company's server.
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Why don't people run personal servers? Two reasons: first, there's not many peer-to-peer apps because those are hard to build without people having personal servers; second, managing a server is impossible for most people and unsavory for everyone.
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Both of these reasons are due to explosions of complexity unavoidable in building something on the Unix/Internet stack.
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By gradient descent, the world has converged on SaaS: shunt all complexity to a few companies who will pay people a lot of money to deal with the complexity, and you get a kiosk to access it.
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Urbit says: no, we think it's possible to build software that doesn't lead to explosions of complexity. But nothing in Unix/Internet is salvageable, it must be a totally clean layer over it. So Urbit is an OS and networking stack that doesn't lead to explosions of complexity.
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