I just rejoined Nostr for the second time with a new identity

I think the radical decentralization of Nostr is very interesting in the simplicity of its relay-based architecture, and it would be great if it could succeed

In my previous Nostr incarnation I tried to find a community I could relate to by modifying the set of relays I was subscribed to, but I found I mostly got the same people on every relay

I'm rejoining now with the hope that Nostr might have developed a more diverse user base, or that I could get a reasonable timeline by curating who I follow and block

I'm a left-leaning software engineer working on privacy and AI. I can find many like-minded people on Mastodon and Bluesky, but not here on Nostr.

Everyone here seems to be a crypto enthusiast. And although I find the blockchain very interesting from a conceptual and technical point of view, I'm highly skeptical of all the actual crypto that has been built on it.

We'll see how long I'll stay.

The one thing that makes it easier is using the Openvibe app which presents a unified feed of Nostr, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads, and allows crossposting across all four.