before facebook, my main interest in discussions on the internet were technical forums. mainly about drugs, mainly DMT and methamphetamine. i'm now programming and most of the discussion forums are practically read only, i hate reddit, and they even block my VPS VPN address so i hardly even read them at all anymore, and stackexchange answers are usually useful but i only find them because they come up with high relevance to my search for a fix on something... even then, so often these ancient, outdated responses.

i have more technical discussions on nostr now than anywhere else. mostly just me reporting issues i see in my work. also a lot of stuff about religion and spirituality and alt-history.

most of the semi-technical stuff i discuss on nostr would probably also get me shadow banned on twitter as well. there's a reason why many of the groups involved in talking about alt history and alt science are constrained to small youtube and telegram channels.

even if i waste my time trying to not get banned on twitter, there's very little relevant discussion to my interests anyway. at least here i have a few frens who read and comment and give their own contributions to such topics.

when your favourite things are outside the walls of the narrative machine, reach doesn't matter. what matters is finding other people at all.