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I just feel like if you see a list of where to find me, and the top 3 things in the list are all places that you've heard of already and you already have an account there, why would you ever bother with the number 4 spot on the list.

I think we need to achieve a critical mass of people saying this is no.1, and there is no 2nd best.

Scary stuff. As you say there's a glimmer of hope with relays on phones and other innovative solutions.

But on the whole people it's a pretty bleak time for the way people understand and use computing. But also the best time because now we've got Nostr, it's strange how there's always a paradox between it being the best time and the worst time and the same time.

I don't think people even realise any more that they own their computer, and they can do whatever they want with it.

I think people have been totally brainwashed by 'the cloud'.

I'm not sure that Nostr will have any reach if people look at it that way though.

If it's just an afterthought, and it's not where the audience has to go in order to interact with people, where's the incentive?

Surely enough people have to do decide to go Nostr only to actually get the snowball rolling?

Exactly, people don't even realise how conditioned they are. It's your computer, you can do whatever you like with it!

Exactly, and this is why they can't just ban Bitcoin or Nostr. It would make the government illegitimate over night. Same thing Bangladesh where they just turned off the entire internet (literally) for days for quell protests. Yes it worked, but at a huge cost to the economy, and it cost the government any last shred of legitimacy they might have had in the eyes of the people.

I think you've answered your own question below when you said about unplugging from the matrix. That means you are in the real world. Bitcoin is technically illegal now in the sense that it's not legal tender, and yet that doesn't prevent you and another person from agreeing to transact in Bitcoin. Same thing with Nostr, if it's illegal, it will be up to people to just decide to use it anyway, but for ethically sound reasons that don't break anything morally enforceable laws. If enough people do that, an illegitimate government which had made that protocol illegal would crumble in days. And that's why they won't ban it, because they know the ban would weaken them.

They can ban X in Brazil because they know it doesn't weaken them. X isn't a protocol, it's a platform, so it's not morally neutral. Banning Bitcoin and Nostr wouldn't be like banning X.