How far will we get with Nostr when people seem so content to relinquish agency over their own lives in return for comforting promises?

Bitcoin will punish those who don't adopt it, and so that lends to a feeling of inevitability. Even rubes will follow harder money over soft when provided enough hardship from the latter.

But Nostr feels different. The incentives to use it are predominantly to avoid censorship of communication and ideas, but that's at odds with your Average Joe who believes it's acceptable to censor people he doesn't agree with, and that it's desireable to exist in digital walled gardens where they have no control over their online identity or their data.

What am I not seeing that will help push this protocol toward mass adoption? Is it the world outside of dilapidated Western democracies that will drive it forward? All I see in my own life are Americans who don't honestly care about freedom or censorship except as buzzwords their political team throws around.

Honest question, would love to hear other thoughts.