I feel it depends on what they’ve read/researched before doing so, and that will influence their initial bias. I signed up purely due to decentralisation, lack of algorithms, and the potential for using my nostr keys to “sign up” for the “other stuff”. Plus it was new and I like messing with new stuff). Watching it evolve is also part of the journey/experience. Sadly, I think many expect to find a fully fledged twitter clone with all the news and content that has after 15 years or so of existence and then to do no work curating their feeds/follows and instead are initially disappointed to find a large bitcoin-focused / nostr dev community (which I personally love along with the memes and zaps).
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yeah, i’m here for the ideology of what it can be and to be part of a frontier that’s just getting explored
Funnily enough I was on twitter early too with the same 4-letter handle I have now only for it to be wrangled out of my hands during Twitter’s clampdown on short usernames - I have no idea why that happened. Changed my password only to be told that I can’t use @jamw again. Still wonder why that was to this day. Anyway, like you, here for the exploration of the ideological frontier that is nostr 🙂