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either that or move their services to a more friendly jurisdiction and use VPNs.
whatever they say, doesn't matter if they can't find out.
Like where? North Korea? This is going to get baked into the hardware and the operating systems and the app stores.
^ 100% yes.
so, let's just give up now
they are going to shut down the mobile devices first, because of the duopoly of google and apple.
for this reason a more reasonable response is to stick with open platforms anyway. it's already a waste of time trying to put nostr on iOS as it is, just ask will.
force them to overreach and try to shut down the entire linux industry. that will be highly successful i'm sure.
it also puts a big roadblock up against the "but muh adoption" meme all the influencoors and even some not so much influencoor who think that adoption is everything
we can't get people to adopt stuff that the government has blocked from normies. the end.
we target linux, web browsers, and if that means that we rule out 90% of the addressable market, so be it. there isn't a normie in the world who would even care to fight the governnment on this.
and there isn't a freak who wouldn't.
also, let's be clear about this:
gitcitadel is not about attracting hordes of normie social media dopamine fiends
it's about providing back end infrastructure and applications to use it to private businesses. the government can't push those people around as easily as they can lock you out of google play and apple store. they already are routinely using all kinds of technologies that are completely bespoke and nothing directly to do with social media
they also can't stop private associations from using them. they can't stop private citizens from using open protocols on their open operating systems.
the inevitable conclusion from all of this is that this whole meme about "mUh AdOpTiOn" needs to die right here and now. it's not gonna happen, ok? they won't let it happen. people will only learn if they have friends who are doing it.
as it is, i'm virtually shut out of reddit already. i'm shut out of X because they shadow ban me automatically, if not explicitly suspend my account within 5 of my posts. this is their cow paddock and they won't have any goats in it.
Yeah, widespread adoption could only be shortlived. We've always seen Nostr as something thinly connecting LANs and similar.
I think that's what the next Internet will look like: No more global stage, just people moving between local stages.
Yeah, iOS is completely pointless. Waste of time.