I’ve experienced both ends of this. First attempt on Nostr, if you can even call it that, was pathetically short lived and just came to experiment and passively consume content like I did on Twitter. It didn’t work and I quickly left.

But coming around the second time motivated by a much deeper dedication to contributing to freedom technologies and protocols in whatever way I can, it is a completely different experience.

One forced habit that I’ve committed to but found so unnatural is to “post content” or try to “build a following.” Even typing those words felt gross. I think many of us who are on here naturally feel that way.

But once you start to experience the positive feedback loops from the effort you put in in terms of both deep connections with substantive people and a much more creative, attentive posture towards the world, the controlled networks become less and less appealing.