I grew up a strait-laced, mild mannered rule follower. I even believed in asking permission rather than seeking forgiveness. As I’ve gotten older, I find I’m becoming more of a rebel as I see the consequences of following the rules, mainly ceding power that shouldn’t be ceded, and losing freedoms that shouldn’t be lost.

I recently made the decision to jump ship over Apple’s handling of zap payments and move to android. I was actually browsing phones in the store today, although I didn’t buy one (yet). So it comes as quite an unwelcome surprise to hear that Google is about to try / is trying the same bullshit on their side of the fence in their own App Store. It all comes down to enforcement but it certainly sounds the same to me.

I say that as background to explain my current headspace.

I don’t have any interest in following rules that suit only the rulers. Fuck that.

Like he said, Android is open. They can’t enforce shit (if we sideload).

It just pisses me off that so many people are going to get frozen out of using zaps (like me currently) because of arbitrary platform rules. It also seems like a slippery slope. We’re already on nostr because we don’t like the control on other platforms, and now they want to control us here?

Fuck that. nostr:note1wdvuvj86yrtst6ulnp8guy2u49arnsg947s05jdq6rgxvcnxp6kqv9drfa