Another incredibly insightful post from @🥩ℝ𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕘𝕒𝕕𝕖 ₿𝕦𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣⚡ The reality of the situation is that a significant proportion of mobile users on Nostr are on iOS. Nostr has grown as a result of Damus more than any other client. Is it more feasible to get all of those users who are locked into apple (for the short term at least) to switch their entire OS? Or is it more powerful to continue to build out tools that support freedom of communication and freedom money, bypassing arbitrary restrictions and censorship from the biggest tech company in the world. I think we do both, but in the short term the latter will have more of an impact.

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Compliance and excusing the actions of a corrupt greedy corporation is not fighting the good fight. Sure, there are lots of people left to onboard, and crApple should have clients. They will always be neutered. But these same arguments will not only justify people continuing to use a shitty ecosystem when they have choices, it'll be why they pretend they are somehow doing something meaningful when the inevitably purchase their next iphone. And they will, because apple is a cult, and you guys are in love with your abuser. I don't expect people to throw away their phones or just swap overnight. That's dumb and unrealistic, but yoh whole post basically said that because Apple doesn't care if all of Nostr left, you should do nothing. You're pretending you're some sort of freedom fighter by staying with a shit company and having to find loopholes just to keep up with the rest of the free world so you can continue funding their greed. You're not. It's Stockholm syndrome. How much funding and time that's been put into Nostr development has been wasted now finding ways around crApple's restrictions, or tweaking shit to get an app into play store, when it could have been spent developing better web clients and the protocol? Meanwhile we're about a technical decade ahead on Android right now, because resources and energy aren't being wasted sucking Tim Apple's dick or trying to find ways around the king's edict. You can't change Apple.