I think in a lot of ways, nostr is the cassette format of today. And I'm not just trying to overfit my bias here :) well, maybe a little.

It's permissionless in the same way as taping from the radio. It's easy to make your own note (tape). It is the format of the eclectic, the weird, the odd, and the counter-counter culture. The distribution of messages is person-to-person not top-down like old radio, vinyl, or legacy social media.

Yeah. It's a special thing we have.