Not an actual fear for me, but I can relate. Stay strong 💜

For the average person, not having a Meta App means ease of transition to a degoogled phone, which is an excellent rabbit hole and a must for aligning with Nostr values.

I love to troll ignorance when someone attempts to shove Whatsapp down my throat by handling the phone over and kindly asking them to install it for me 😂🤣 They wholeheartedly believe you're tech illeterate and are about to make their good deed for the day.

Initially, I perceived it as social suicide but the years revealed not being about networking but rather to addiction. Us and them.

Months at sea in the lonesome without internet, the contrast was clear that upon return to society, the pattern was always to "dump" all the "mined" value into the networks to get a dopamine hit, in whichever manifested form.

Presently at sea, I hardly ever pull the camera out for a sunset, or a dolphin passing by. I just appreciate it and let it be forgotten in my memory, just like in the 35mm days.

Philosophically: all of our actions have become pragmatic, for the sake of content creation. Hardwired to fuel the machine.

And despite the data-sovereignty and censorship values of Nostr, the technical issues are fixed but the addiction problem remains.