I dunno. This thing is weird, but they put a lot of work into it, and you can download something that runs.<p>What they want to build, from the user perspective, seems to be a federated social network. Like Diaspora, only with some of the problems solved. The two big user-level problems they claim to solve are 1) spam, and 2) being tied to a service provider.<p>The solution to 1) is that you have to buy an identity from someone. You can't create identities for free. This is a profit center for someone, although I'm not clear whom. Not clear how much a personal identity costs, but there are only 2^32 of them.<p>The solution to 2) is that you can pick up your ball and go home - take the entire state of your online presence and move it to another server. The routing gets fixed somehow. Sort of like cell phone number portability.<p>Those are both good features. Right now, they apparently power only an online chat system and the ability to host web pages driven by programs in their language. Somebody could potentially build a Facebook-like system on top of that.<p>The terminology and the cult-like aspects are seriously annoying. It reminds me of Xanadu and its team. (I knew that crowd. Mostly extreme libertarians. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu.)<p>I wonder if this could be used as a lightweight container system for server-side web applications. It has a container system, and those containers can serve web pages and talk to other containers. Unlike, say, Docker, you don't have to lug around a whole Linux environment in your container. Being able to move your container to a new hosting service very quickly would force hosting services to be competitive.