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Me neither. Nostr is probably my biggest account so far (and I have no clue why) Disclaimer: I maybe have tried every social network under the sun in the last decade, excluding recent ones though because #nostr is what I want (anybody remember diaspora or tent.is 😅) Thank you for saying friend to me 💖 When reading your history, I think you started too late 😅 unless you skipped parts. I think my first place was MySpace, and back then you had a lot of customisation options (I wrote a lot of HTML and CSS for my myspace page) and zero algorithms, as far as I remember. Your feed was just a chronological soup if posts from the people you followed (or, "were friends with" as it was called) Then mark suckalot entered the game and took it over, and it all went straight downhill from there. Suddenly, "engagement" was the ruler of your feed. And then, this metric was monetized. This move didn't only fuck up social media, it killed society as we knew it. People were starting to rage bait to farm "interest" and money. Then crypto came along to amplify scam artists 1000x And we ended up with things like Hawk Tuah coin. To me, #nostr is the antidote to all of this. We reclaim chronological feeds. We reclaim the absence of "sponsored posts" We measure engagement in a decentralised, ungovernable currency. This is why I am clinging to this network - and I think it has a chance to grow with everyone who is just burned out with how things are elsewhere. Anyway this is way too long already and i'm forgetting where I started 😅 Hope it makes some sense to you