About your last paragraph, have you heard about "mobile lightning nodes"?
I mean, actual nodes, not some LSP powered nodes. Check out Valet Bitcoin wallet.
It is a Lightweight mobile wallet that run...
Personally I've experimented with Alby hub + Zeus mobile side, but... It's still something no average joe/merchant can possibly do.
If someone decides to produce home servers that maybe integrate a BitAxe/NerdMiner-style ASIC, a Bitcoin node, Lightning, a WebUI to manage them, and a robust enough update mechanism (e.g. a custom NixOS/Guix System) well, then maybe people will actually spend money to put a home server in their house and so becoming sovereign citizens. One that, besides payments, also handles things like contacts with Radicale, photos with Immich, videos with JellyFin, hosts Nostr with a Habla-style blog, and maybe adds Matrix with a web client for desktop use while they choose whatever they want for mobile. Something big enough to justify the purchase cost. Then maybe things will change, but as things stand now, objectively, we're not going to get very far. The "low entry barrier" thanks to use of third party service vanish the trust in the system, enabling too much scams.
Besides, we'll get even less far if we don't have hardware wallets that allow Lightning payments via NFC/QR to reassure most people that "you're not putting your money on a smartphone that isn't really yours, but on an open-hardware device limited enough to be immune to remote attacks".
To really win people over, you don't need to act like the giants who use bottom trawling; that only works if you're a giant and can afford massive marketing. When you're working on FLOSS projects, you first have to win over the power users, and they will be the one to effectively promote the project within their circles. To convince them, you need something with a different entry barrier specifically, that of distros and the ease of personal deployment without needing to know almost anything about the internals or the architecture of a project, just "I read about it, it piqued my interest, and I want to try it out".
If someone decides to produce home servers that maybe integrate a BitAxe/NerdMiner-style ASIC, a Bitcoin node, Lightning, a WebUI to manage them, and a robust enough update mechanism (e.g. a custom NixOS/Guix System) well, then maybe people will actually spend money to put a home server in their house and so becoming sovereign citizens. One that, besides payments, also handles things like contacts with Radicale, photos with Immich, videos with JellyFin, hosts Nostr with a Habla-style blog, and maybe adds Matrix with a web client for desktop use while they choose whatever they want for mobile. Something big enough to justify the purchase cost. Then maybe things will change, but as things stand now, objectively, we're not going to get very far. The "low entry barrier" thanks to use of third party service vanish the trust in the system, enabling too much scams.
Besides, we'll get even less far if we don't have hardware wallets that allow Lightning payments via NFC/QR to reassure most people that "you're not putting your money on a smartphone that isn't really yours, but on an open-hardware device limited enough to be immune to remote attacks".
To really win people over, you don't need to act like the giants who use bottom trawling; that only works if you're a giant and can afford massive marketing. When you're working on FLOSS projects, you first have to win over the power users, and they will be the one to effectively promote the project within their circles. To convince them, you need something with a different entry barrier specifically, that of distros and the ease of personal deployment without needing to know almost anything about the internals or the architecture of a project, just "I read about it, it piqued my interest, and I want to try it out".
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