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  • “Apple will remove Damus from the AppStore, but “YOU” (advanced early adopters) will be alright, you can just use alternatives like Graphene!”
This is true, but haven't we already won the fight for ourselves? We already know how to use open source operating systems, run nodes connected to satellites, move to El Salvador, etc.
I reasoned that this awareness would lead to more resistance on behalf of the mainstream: fighting tooth and nail for the illiterate plebs to be able to install open source apps from the appstore/playstore, use easy GUIs, etc.
...While also educating ourselves and others to become higher skilled contributors, as expressed by @bataroot
  • sure, go ahead and have nice little arguments with Apple's centralized app store moderators. And while you are at it, do the same with the state, all for the benefit of the plebs and their "rights". in the meantime, I'll take care of my own and increase the 1% a little bit every day.
Efforts are being made on both fronts: Damus will not be removed from the appstore, and the education system is creating new maxi plebs every day.
However, I feel that we could be lured into becoming a “new elite” class in the digital age, with many privileges, but ultimately just special vassals of a more subtle authoritarian state.
Maybe I'm overcomplicating or making circular arguments, but I feel led to inquire about motivation today:
  • Focus on "the remnant" and "expanding the 1%"
or/and/vs
  • "The race to avoid the war" and advocating for mass availability.
Your take?
I am unable to help people who are unwilling to help themselves. In fact, I can't help anyone at all. I can not think for someone, I can not do everything for everyone. I must do for myself and hope people care for themselves because it is simply not possible for me to care for everyone.
Even if I bought a pixel and installed graphene on it and gave it to someone, I still can not help them because they would reject to use it.
All that I can do is point people to the resources they can use to help themselves.
The sooner you realize you can't actually help people, you can only point them to where they can go to help themselves or how to help themselves, the sooner you will mature as an adult and the less pain you will experience in life.
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Ouch that is what my ego needed to hear. People don't often change and having peace with that is important. Thanks
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Bitcoin is a natural selection.

Only the brave and knowledgeable will use it. All the rest, if they do not want to learn it or are too lazy... they will NGMI and will just die in their miserable fiat life. And I care less for those.
Save my words, you will remember them in few years.
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Your point reminds me of Nic Carter's opinion that plebs just want to rule over the normies trying to "have fun while staying poor" in the new hyperbitcoinized world. I don't agree.
Don't underestimate the masses, particularly the young. Just about every teenager in the country knows how to watch movies free on weird sites I've never heard of, while dodging viruses. Twenty years ago it was napster.
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Great point, I think what I mean by "the masses" would be GenX, those likely coming into power after the Boomers.
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