Oddbean

I think people that grew up to see the early days of the internet remember how much fun it was and find something similar in the new-ness and free-ness and novelty of nostr. Plus we had the patience to wait for dial up and deal with hacking things together so we don’t mind shuffling through the mess here. That’s my theory at least 😂

Exactly, it didn't all work perfectly, it wasn't all instant, but all the people were real. And it felt like there was a real link between what happened online and what happened in the real world. You could actually meet a girl online *gasp*. And that's exactly what Nostr feels like, a link to the real world through the internet. Which is ironic because the accounts on here are just cryptographic keys, whereas fiat social media (sorry I know it's cringe to call everything fiat, but it really is fiat social media) feels so disconnected from the real world, even when people have their real identities on there!