{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Mbitcoiner wrote","author_name":"Mbitcoiner (npub1uz…857h3)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1uzfp6cgwue2njm86cmyeq7m26y0n58w72acq98sjsnnv4c87002s6857h3","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Incredibly eye opening history and downfall of Urbit:\n\nhttps://www.compactmag.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-urbit/\n\nSo much to learn from here. I could totally see Nostr going down this path if the community is careless. Nostr devs would do well to read this. Relevant quote 👇 \n\n\"Privacy, which ostensibly set Urbit apart from Big Tech platforms, was a staple of their marketing rhetoric—but according to employees, the network’s actual encryption was a work-in-progress. “Sovereignty” was more of an aesthetic signal than a description of my actual relationship to my data. Urbit came to feel uncomfortably similar to the subscription-based cloud services I had previously hoped it might replace.\""}