321 sats \ 4 replies \ @Dash_1971 14 Jun 2023 \ on: Damus, where are your cojones? nostr
This is funny but to be fair I think Will was being sarcastic with this note 😂
It's all a shitshow...
You don't go and say that Damus is a censorship resistant NOSTR client when you go and "talk" with Apple crying to restore your app on their app store.
That is not anymore "censorship resistant".
If you really have balls, you will show them the midle finger and tell to all your users to dump the ishit devices.
That will be something to admire not begging Apple to restore the app and remove the features they want them to remove.
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Totally agree with you. Even Dorsey, Mallers etc., using iPhones. It's like they don't understand what this fight is all about. And I hate to say that about legends like them, and maybe I'm an extreme tin foil hatter, but any central choke point the GAE can go for to go after Bitcoin they will go for. We have some time but not much. So start using the tools now, ffs. Yes it's a bit of a LARP now, but pretty soon it's going to get real and anything we can do now to get prepared has to be worth it. E2e encryption, self sovereign Bitcoin wallets, etc., None of these are going to be in the Apple or Google play store in 10 years time. You will be arrested at the airport if you're found with these on your phone. The worst dystopia you can imagine is coming. The GAE is bankrupt and needs to extract eye popping tribute from citizens and conquered nations to keep the racket going. 100s of military bases around the world that need paying for. People not only in the US but around the world must be in dollars in order for the inflationary tax to be effective and not cause hyper inflation. The military shrinking or not being paid is not an option. Senators and Congressmen not being paid is not an option. The only option is the world being forced to slave in the petrodollar system and anyone who thinks Apple is going to stand up against that has no idea of the scale of the problem. Yes, you can say "well you LARPers with you Pixels are hardly going to be able to stand up and fight" but I reject that defeatist framing. I'm going to give it a go just out of spite. If enough of us make it difficult for them then at least we can make the lives of our enemies a little less easy. Better than nothing.
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Apple can censor Apple apps.
But even as an Iphone user the risk of being censored is quite small.
You can walk to the shop and buy an Android phone every time you want.
The apple situations sucks. But it is still infinitely better than using twitter. Not only could apple censor twitter. You might be censored by twitter as well and there is no way to recover from that.
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Thing is, we have no idea how this will evolve.
Maybe a zap-less Damus will exist for a while, getting more users along the way. And later somehow zaps are restored and get exposed to many more users. Or people learn about Nostr through Damus and move to something else to be able to zap.
(This has happened in the past: Bitcoin apps were banned and then allowed again.)
Nostr is by far the most effective tool to orange pill the normies. It's important to grab as much mindshare as possible.
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