It's that difficult for you to tell us why the product Urbit is bad? You've already spent some time letting people know about how it's associated with a bad man and is therefore bad, but it's a huge effort to say why the product is bad beyond that association?
It's also interesting that saying that an argument that goes as "bad person is associated with thing therefore thing is bad" is invalid, is in your view equivalent to defending the bad person. This type of thinking is exactly the tool of totalitarians that you seem to be so adverse to.
>bad person is associated with thing therefore thing is bad
No, bad thing was created with fundamental bad ideas from bad person and, while bad person is not with the project anymore, the project still fundamentally relies on these bad ideas. Bad person being as bad as they are simply serves to amplify how bad all this is.
The fundamental bad idea being that someone can create a space in which they have control over it and the people who willingly choose to participate in? Is Reddit a "bad thing" too?
It's not simple enough for anyone to understand because you aren't saying what the "fundamental bad ideas" are!
Creating a space in which a set person has control isn't the problem, the problem is the limitation in who can control those spaces
Reddit doesn't make sense as a comparison because there are no limits to how many subreddits can be created, and communities split off from larger subreddits reasonably often when they don't like the rules.
In Urbit's system, you can't do that. If you don't like what the person at the top decides for your plebian self, then you're SOL.
This isn't really true. Anyone can make comets, which are low-trust entities but still can use the network without any parent at all. Stars and planets can move between their parent galaxy/stars respectively. There's so many stars it's very unlikely planets will be unable to find a host they're OK with, and while there's fewer galaxies, they've been distributed reasonably widely, to the point that for sure not all are controlled by the original creators and there's at least plausibly variation in thought among the owners. Beyond that it seems like your view of how stars/planets interact with their parents is more restrictive than reality, the intention is more infrastructure providers than the form of moderation you see in a subreddit.
The thing I think is most problematic is actually the numbers involved, specifically the fact that there's only 4 billion planets (still).
It's also interesting that saying that an argument that goes as "bad person is associated with thing therefore thing is bad" is invalid, is in your view equivalent to defending the bad person. This type of thinking is exactly the tool of totalitarians that you seem to be so adverse to.