Are there any blog posts or podcast episodes specifically about startups leaving urbit (cough cough ‘uqbar’, holium)? When I first heard about ‘kinode’ I was pretty horrified tbh

uqbar (now kinode.org) and holium (now memedeck.xyz?) both left and talked about it on twitter spaces i think? portal folded entirely? @vaporware pivoted to plunder for essentially the same reasons the plunder core devs left urbit. vaporware still believes in the idea of a solid state interpreter, the others don’t.

Building a new kind of onchain cloud computer
https://vaporware.network

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open source / build in public

i think the solid state interpreter is a necessary, but not sufficient, parameter of a personal server, which i think is the core technological advancement that will unlock new users experiences that people want/need. of course, i think there are a lot of urbit contributors who are less concerned about the personal…

Is it just me or is this "solid state interpreter" stuff the wrong thing for people to be focused on / fighting about?

As a dev focused on data sovereignty & privacy, it often bewilders me how much Urbit is focused on things like Hoon, Nock, OS-level stuff, VMs, etc.