Some people will play a game where others are obviously cheating, because they have found a comfortable, mental place for themselves as the victim.

It allows them the benefit of being self righteous about never winning. "It's not my fault, it's because my opponent cheats."

This can actually *stop* many from switching to a fair, honest game. Because if they did, they now have to live by their own merits, go through the painful process of learning, and they lose the comfort of always having someone else to blame.

I think this is a big part of why some fear #Bitcoin. Being cheated by fiat is easier and you can always say, "it's because politician X/corporation Y is evil that I don't succeed."

I don't say this to be derogatory either. It's just human nature. Sometimes we find comfort in certainty and stability, even if it's harming us.

Taking responsibility and embracing uncertainty is neither fun nor easy.

Nostr is NOT trying to be an inferior copycat of Twitter, it IS trying to be a censorship resistant Twitter, it says it right there on the box. In order to achieve this there will be tradeoffs to having a centralized platform.

If new users can’t tell the difference or the importance of this, then you won’t be able to save them in the desert because they’ll say to you the water doesn’t taste like sand.