<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Mbitcoiner wrote</title><author_name>Mbitcoiner (npub1uz…857h3)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1uzfp6cgwue2njm86cmyeq7m26y0n58w72acq98sjsnnv4c87002s6857h3</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>Incredibly eye opening history and downfall of Urbit:&#xA;&#xA;https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-urbit/&#xA;&#xA;So 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 👇 &#xA;&#xA;&#34;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.&#34;</html></oembed>