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I chronically fear half-measures. They're often the worst of both worlds: just enough user satisfaction to deactivate them, but not principled enough to take the user where they thought they were going. The bitcoin ETF analogy is good. "I think I understand Bitcoin and now I want to get in.. oh here's an ETF I can buy, perfect - I can just do this easily and now I'm done." the consumer didn't go home with what they went to the store for, and to make matters worse they likely acted against their original interests without realizing it. Walking the path of self-custody is the personally transformative process and the one that builds the proper network. likewise for decentralized applications and protocols over platforms. I'm not even sure I see the value of nostr login over oauth/google.... It gives you pseudonymity, which is alright I guess, but you don't get data ownership and availability if the application has your data siloed. and I don't have a lot of hope for the pseudonymous login, either... once these centralized "platforms" get flooded with TBs of data (especially if its "questionable material") from anon accounts they'll 100% walk that back or at the very least filter/censor heavily. I'm not convinced there is a viable middle path