Oh I love this side of the net. I’m not as active as I once was but I was a heavy commenter early on after the API disaster to get momentum going. We’re still small but have to reached a point where I no longer feel the need.

I meant a catchy way to attract users. More nerds and privacy conscious people like us will continue to trickle in slowly with the occasional wave.

True but I believe it’s not the lack of resources, education or information that is causing this uninterest but rather the other way around, it’s because nobody is interested that it’s hard to find resources despite the information is actually readily available if you look for it hard enough. In my personal opinion the reason for this uninterest is that our basic needs are not sufficiently met.

In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (which is a theory that pictures human needs and wants as a pyramid of priorities) this topic would span across the upper levels (belonging, esteem and self-actualisation) but in the reality of most Egyptians the lower basic levels are hardly there in the first place (biological needs and safety needs). That’s why you would that most people passionate about this topic are from countries like Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, etc where there basic needs are met like biological needs (food, water, drinks, sex, medicine, shelter etc) and safety needs (insurance from disease, job security, human freedoms and rights, safety from crimes, personal and property security etc). Less passionate being Americans where safety needs are less available, and lastly some third world countries like Egypt where most people have to prioritise their mental powers on focusing on obtaining the basics before wandering to more advanced topics.

It’s only when you secure the needs that you would find people’s interests shift from making money to eat, to developing education and healthcare, to strengthening the community and relationships, to improving oneself and mental health, to letting creativity self-expression and innovation go wild. And by secure the needs I mean total security; you need to prove to the people that their needs are guaranteed and secure for the foreseeable future, in order to free their minds to focus on new topics and concerns. Only then you would find the people by themselves pushing towards freedom including digital freedom and to educate themselves producing the material and resources needed.

This struggle happens in both the subconscious mind of the individual and the collective mind of the community and society as a whole. It’s no-one’s fault alone but the result of the interaction between human psychology and sociology with the current institutions and the status quo.

P.S. sorry I went into a deep rant here lol