I come across so many people in my day-to-day life that look back nostalgically on the "old internet" or the "wild west internet" before centralized platforms, algorithms and dragnet surveillance. They express an existential dissatisfaction with the current status quo.

That internet is alive. It lives on Nostr. It lives on the darknet.

All it requires is a healthy degree of curiosity and openness. A willingness to try what others in their social circle haven't before.

The comfort brought to most in using the internet in the popular, "approved" manner comes at the cost of this existential dissatisfaction.