Did you come to Nostr as a non-bitcoiner?
What brought you here, where did you learn of it?
What made you stay?
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I came no nostr as a conspiracy theorist who listens to the Corbett report, and Will jb55 did an interview on a podcast about decentralized internet alternatives. But I was already a bitcoiner.
I came here as with no previous bitcoin (or shitcoin) knowledge of exposure. I learned of it from Twitter, specifically jack & Edward Snowden posting about it. I came for the freedom aspect, having been given the Twitter banhammer a few times too many. The community and amount of real interaction made me stay, in addition to the great learning opportunity for bitcoin.
Wait, you weren't into public key cryptography before you heard about nostr?
It wasn't a foreign concept. I'd been using Linux and SSH since the early 2000's, and had been using keypairs for quite some time, so that part of Nostr made sense to me 💯
I can’t really say I was a Bitcoiner. I knew very little about Bitcoin but I always thought it was something amazing and was eager to learn more. Most of what I’ve learned has been through Nostr.
The main reason I came here is because, in Turkiye, we face a lot of censorship and when Elon Musk bought Twitter, it only got worse.
I’ve stayed on Nostr because it feels like the kind of change I want to see on the internet. It genuinely gives me hope.
Plus, Nostr is full of smart, creative, and kind people.
1. i wasn't really interested in this platform from a bitcoin perspective, though i was interested in bitcoin over a decade ago (with a renewed interest now that i have been on nostr)
2. i often search about decentralized/FOSS softwares, hardware, and protocols; so i found it just by searching about FOSS social media
3. in general, everyone on here is nice & genuine
I came to Nostr for the censorship resistance.
Nostr reawoken the Bitcoin fanaticism that I already had.
In 2022 nostr:nprofile1qqs8v4lue0mmac8mlxt7fg4kqm6wrjwdsdepxs32chptl9f48uhxksqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eeks6t5vehhycm99ehkuegprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezucm0d9hxvatwv35hgtnrdaksh626e5 introduced me to Nostr with NIP-26 Delegated Event Signing. I wish they would revisit Nostr, but instead they have become fixated on ActivityPub and selling Communities.
I have been buying Bitcoin since 2017. I saw a notice about Nostr pretty soon after it was launched, but couldn't figure it out. Then Primal launched, and it was easy enough to figure it out.
I was a scuttlebut fan. 'nough said.
Joined as a Bitcoiner, stayed because #Nostr feels like home real people, real freedom, global connections, free speech, and #zaps that cross borders in seconds ⚡🧡
I'm not a fan of fedcoins, NOSTR is the only decentralized network that I see working across the next centuries.
I like that no one owns the protocol,
I like the chronological (ish) feed,
I like that we can choose different algos,
I like that clients have to compete for users
I like that there are more deep/critical thinkers
I like the ⭕
I had a really weird experience and noticed algorithm manipulation in my feed and then the voices in my head told me I had to GTFO NOW NOW NOW so now I am on Nostr exclusively and a Bitcoin maxi and cannot relate to anyone at all anymore 🤣
The friends on the other side approve of Nostr, so you all got that going for you! 👻👼🧙♀️