what would an actual decentralized metaverse network protocol look like?

@Moon

Xanadu+: everyone has their own instance and downloads all other traffic, which is encrypted and stored locally.

Given how cheap drives are getting, this seems more and more likely...

@amerika have you ever looked in detail at how xanadu works, in my opinion it's no good

@Moon

We'd need a more engineered version.

It's what Tim Berners-Lee (Solid) and Curtis Yarvin (Urbit) are trying to reinvent, just geekily.

@amerika @Moon feels like a lot of ppl are fundamentally missing the mark. i feel like i was onto something a while back but got stuck with the paralysis of choice

@errante @amerika some people are working on an urbit markup thing but it doesn't appear close. i need to learn more about solid

@Moon @amerika i feel like urbit is fundamentally just not getting it because they just
dont have anything to show for it

@errante @amerika it's gotten a lot better fast

@Moon @amerika sure its gotten better but what does it Have. what does urbit Do

@errante @amerika social network

@Moon @amerika ...thats it? i thought it was supposed to be like a new internet operating system

@errante @amerika it is but the apps that are being built right now are social and payment apps. but other new interesting things re being built too, like a desktopsharing network app collaboration suite

@Moon @amerika so they put all of this money into it and they have 3 things to show for it

@errante @amerika they're building a platform and applications for the platform at the same time, this is inherently difficult even if they didn't choose to make a crazily different type of platform.

@Moon @amerika idk like my pal devine did that and it was hard but they also have something to show for it that urbit doesn't and theyve been at it for less time than urbit

@Moon @amerika like RPGMaker has probably done more for the accessibility of whatever thing you want than urbit ever will it feels

rpgmaker put easy in depth game development into the hands of like hundreds of thousands of people that used it and put out games and sure they were shit but a fuck ton weren't shit and gamemaker has had a lasting consequence on what it was aimed at

@Moon @amerika and it feels like urbit and a bunch of other stuff is in the position to do something similar but is too pure to bend over and help out the dumb people do something fundamentally cool

@Moon @amerika i dont think creating a very specific architecture that excites a very specific portion of the population is a revolutionary act but i feel like putting game development in the hands of the masses who are willing to trudge through it is and i wish we could have something like that for other things

@errante @amerika we can have multiple things. I don't think Urbit will ever be for everybody but I think in the future it will be a thing that a small but influential community of people are using. I agree with you about games.