Supporting you Will and much respect for your POW with Damus, but Apple is a closed, walled garden. Always has been. Freedom loving people would be better building on free and open source platforms, imo. If we care more about "mass adoption" then we have to play by the establishment's rules. The establishment GAE/IMF/World Bank exists to exploit resource rich nations for the benefit of the G7. That's what Washington is all about and Apple bends the knee to Washington. Only Cantillionairs can even afford to buy Apple. It's a phone of privilege, made (well, designed) by the privileged, for the privileged. They don't give a damn about the Global South. Sure, Google doesn't either, but due to FOSS being a competitive edge for them historically, we have the lucky coincidence that we have a great foss mobile operating system in the Degoogled Android roms. Even stock Android beats Apple. (At least for censorship resistance and choice). It's painful but why continue to engage with Apple? You are trying to negotiate with the Death Star.
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The only reason why damus is popular because there are so many apple users. Its the fight I am taking on. There are many other good web and android clients already, why do i need to build another one of those?