The vibe I get is Urbit meets browsable S3 with Kerberos on the side as the XCTBL project. It's half serious half art and uses confusing vocabulary on purpose. (I mean both Urbit and this)

Totally fair. If it didn’t click, that’s on me, not you.

The short version: RCRDBL is just a place to drop things that should persist (text, files, artifacts) without accounts. XCTBL is a separate system for identity/auth when persistence needs ownership.

If you’re not interested in permanent records or identity boundaries, it probably won’t resonate—and that’s okay.