Honestly, LBRY is literally inflated with pure anti vaccine and anti covid material. I don’t see how many “Free, Unlimited Speech” sites will survive waves of antivaxxers coming in from reddit when they don’t have a central place anymore.
The sad truth is that these people are so into their own bubble of “Everything I see is correct, but everything stating otherwise is the government trying to convince me otherwise.”
EDIT: Also, I think that these people are just looking into Open Source Software as a way for them to spread their stupid, delusional opinions now that “free-use” software is “Owned by big tech that tries to silence us because its the government” or some stupid altright opinion like that. Also, if you’re one of those asshats, please look into the general social media algorithms, human behaviour and the target groups of ivermectin use before you call someone else a sheep or a dumb cow.
Haven’t had a smartphone since March, and so far I’m not having much problems, except for the Covid QR-code we can get post-vaccination. We can get it physical, and we have to print it but the site hasn’t worked yet. If I can’t get it after I’m officially fully vaccinated I’ll have to give them a call.
However, so far I’m trying to get my driver’s license which is an official document and it’s not very hard. Driving instructors will understand that I don’t have whatsapp and just reach me over SMS.
No bank is damn near impossible. You’re expected to have a bank account for automatic deduction of taxes. I haven’t had to file for them yet since I’m a teenager. Luckily we do have some privacy laws, and we can trust our banks.
I think it would be doable, but for the ratio of convenience to privacy in having no bank account is just too out of balance.