Start from a Minds-detached keypair the moment a usable client came about, as I knew about Nostr from back when it merely a published protocol and nothing more.

The description of it had me hooked, but for three years no usable client existed that made it easy to hop on and start using it immediately; Branle existed (and was used as the basis for Astral, which was EVERYONE'S first Nostr client), but it was extremely barebones like the protocol itself was at the time.

I can already imagine saving myself from the bullshit of DeSo, Twetch and the like alongside services that couldn't maintain their hype like Flote (R.I.P.).