urbit VS elk

Urbit

GIT is decentralized by its nature. GitHub is used to centralize the source of truth for all developers which create consensus on production code for example. Source of truth can be defined as the code that is currently running in production on arbitrary machines. So one can define by the protocol that production code is actually an Urbit ship and the SVM updates the ship in place. Merges, pull requests, etc is governed with a DAO.

Ethereum. The broadly useful, turing-complete version of Bitcoin. It has a community of developers building it and building on it, and as it grows and layer-2 scaling solutions — secondary blockchains that "settle" to Ethereum, making mild concessions on the hardness axis in exchange for a huge speed increase — the appeal and power of decentralized "smart contracts" will become more and more obvious. Just for one example, Urbit uses a set of Ethereum smart contracts to manage their decentralized PKI (public key infrastructure) system.

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Hoon code is rather interesting to look at, especially the rune vs keyword syntax (random file: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/pkg/arvo/lib/aqua...) but I don't think it's worth the effort.

Urbit is an OS that runs as a smart contract on Ethereum: https://urbit.org/

This has lead to a delightful variety of custom clients like https://phanpy.social/ - https://elk.zone/ is another example that I really like.

It's the complete opposite of the Twitter API situation, where they locked their API down and killed the entire ecosystem of third-party clients.

And there are tons of third party clients. I think Tusky is the best one I’ve seen for Android, and there’s an interesting web-based one called Elk that’s very nice. You load up https://elk.zone and then use it as a front-end to sign in to your server.

The answer to that is https://elk.zone atm, a fun and chef's kiss interface (built with nuxt). You can insert elk.zone/ before any Mastodon url. https://phanpy.social is also great, with multi columns even for lists.

A browser plugin (like "Mastodon – Simplified Federation") to follow, favorite, etc. directly on any server has also improved my experience a lot.

Quick! Tell Obama and Taylor Swift about https://elk.zone! They're going to be so excited!

Also try logging in through https://elk.zone/ if you want to stick with the familiar twitter interface

For me, the boost/reply-numbers using https://elk.zone have been much more reliable than the original app. (It's also the (web)app that convinced me. Mastodon is the real deal.)

Try elk.zone. You can log into the UI with an account from any instance. I use it as my main UI and it looks pretty close to twitter, at least close enough for me.