pardon "shitcoin because its not Bitcoin" is intellectually lazy. the "all money returns to one" axiom is just a theory that your confirmation bias happens to prefer. there have always been other "chains." and telling non-technical people to "just run a LN node" for privacy isn't a solution. although it is has gotten better, its still more administrative overhead than most people are going to do. and third, it isn't correct to guilt people about not "supporting decentralization and security" if they use monero. they're supporting decentralization, security AND privacy.

People aren't going to run a LN node if just some normie off the street. Or if they don't have the time or ability to learn how to do that in order to improve privacy. They can just get Monero though and achieve it. Pretty sweet.

Because of LN complexity the end result is everyone being honeypot surveilled by custodians like Wallet of Satoshi and calling it a day. Monero makes privacy far more accessible for most users. Why should users have to do this for privacy 👇 when they don't have to? Make privacy more accessible and Monero would be unnecessary.