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Damus will be removed from the app store in 14 days, apple says zaps are not allowed on their platform because they *could* be used by content creators to sell digital content. This is right before I’m about to give my talk at the oslo freedom forum on how decentralized social networks with lightning integration are bringing financial freedom to the masses... pretty sus… 😕 This would be a watershed moment: If people can’t transact freely p2p on their platform, this has huge implications for the entire ecosystem of apps with lightning integration and v4v.
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Moi aussi depuis son Apple 1 et 2, il a fallu des années pour que l'EU arrive à lui faire des câbles standards pas spécialement Apple la dernière *loi influencer du 10 Juin 2023+ va elle aussi créer son effet qui se serait catastrophique pour les personnes et les plateformes décentralisées ou non des *empêcheurs de tourner en rond= dégoûtée par cette notion de *Liberté* contrôlée
I haven't been an Apple user for over a decade after they butchered Final Cut and when jailbreaking got a lot more difficult - switched from iPhone and Mac at the time and was more than happy to never look back. Looks like they're back to their old tricks. Could this be the start of mass Bitcoin app takedowns? Maybe. At least on Android you can sideload or use fdroid. Might be a lot more Android users coming over in the next couple years if this nonsense keeps happening. I sincerely hope a big win of some kind can come from this. Not sure what that looks like, but I have faith in @jb55's passion and drive! View quoted note →
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Please talk it through with them Will. They seem to specify where tips are connected to receiving digital content. But I don’t really follow that, because you already received the content and all the content here is open source! There are no paywalls anywhere in Damus. So the zap and the receiving of content not really connected?
Here is my suggestion: Create a customized version without the zaps feature and keep it on App store. People who want to evade censorship may still use it. Publish the full version on damus homepage so that experienced bitcoin users can side-load it.
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I was zapped for the first time few days ago for helping a user fix his issue with the Strike app and his bank account, an issue that I also had before. It was the equivalent to $1 but THE FEELING I got that I was paid for helping a specific person and not a corporation (which is what my fiat work “does”) was SO POWERFUL that I can understand this was going to be fought by corporations. #[1]​​ has demonstrated that one person only can replace all the useless non-sense bullshit jobs that corporations create just because they have so much money they need to spend. This is just the beginning of a new era, “then they fight you” is definitely here. WE ARE GOING TO WIN!
So does Apple confirm that it considers BTC as a valid payment medium? Does Apple accept BTC over lightning? What’s it’s address?Is it possible to arrange for anyone explicitly using Damus app to sell digital content over Nostr to pay the apple tax in sats to Apple? (Whether one thinks the tax is fair or not). Nice App btw.
I’m surprised they even allowed zaps in the first place. This sucks. First Twitter, then Reddit, now this 😢 PWA is the only way to go at this point. I don’t understand how crypto wallets like #[2]​ are exempt from this rule.
"Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing. Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective."
2011: July - October Political Notes - Richard Stallman
#[1]​ - sorry to hear. As #[2]​ often says - this is a reflection/perfect example of rent seeking behaviour, and value extraction, as opposed to genuinely creating value (what you are so nobly doing with Damus). Keep fighting the good fight, we will win in the end 🙌🚀
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Slightly unpopular opinion but the web is and always will be the only place to resist the extra layers of sensorship from companies ( DNS not included ofcourse ). Thank you guys for this client hope to see a web version of it! 🔥
It's Apple. I hate them. (I was an Apple user from 2006 to 2021.) Apple and Nintendo have exactly one thing in common: If it doesn't profit them, it shall be gone. If they can't monetize it, it must be banned. I really hoped Damus would stay on iOS but... Hey, EU might have their way and Damus can be one of the best sideloading apps.