I am right there with you Matt. I have been on twitter a very long time, it is a important source of news, but with the plethora of trolls, bots, and seemingly much more angry people in general. I am always wrestling with the benefit vs reward ratio.

I speak only for myself, as I only have been on Nostr a couple of weeks or so. Here is my personal summary of this platform called Nostr, so far:

1. Very friendly and most try very hard to keep it this way. (I like this a lot) kind of like tribal in a way. This makes it so pleasant to be here.

2. Bitcoin Maxi here. Bitcoin seems to be a primary core here. As well as privacy (somewhat). I realize a lot of folks may not be so crypto freedom focused but this is core here. (I like all the freedom I can get) The lightning network is wonderful and integrated here, which is huge, I just wonder what will happen when the gov. tries to regulate and demand full kyc here. I will watch. (I hope people resist more gov. regulation)

3. News here is lacking big time.. but Nostr is growing very fast I believe, and hopefully it will keep its zen like happiness for a long time. While adding news.

Serious respect to you.