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0 pointsgonehome5y ago0 comments

I think it definitely is currently, but it doesn't need to be.

The design is such that it's possible for it to be as easy to use as FB. Running your own linux server will never be.

The urbit tooling still has a way to go, but it's improving. I'm hopeful that it can get there.

Mastodon is trapped by the problems of the existing software stack - they can't escape them: https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/

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Dylan168075y ago

You're going to need to be more specific about how Mastodon is trapped. If I go install it in docker it's going to involve more lines of code than urbit but no user cares about that. If it's hard to configure that can definitely be fixed/escaped.

gonehomeOP5y ago

It has a lot to do with federation issues on the modern internet.

- Version mismatching and updates

- Running the servers (admin, setup, config)

- Spam and problematic users

Urbit ID fixes the spam issue, Urbit OS fixes the admin and version update issues. Mastodon (but really any non-urbit system) is going to always be a mess of dependencies and things that break.

This old post (2010 before urbit was a real thing) goes into most of it: http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...

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