also, it was a bit grating at first but nostr protocol's minimalistic specification and simplicity and obedience to several of the key principles of the Laws of Unix grabbed my attention

something that i felt like i would be able to grapple and do something productive to developing it 

 I was absolutely sold on nostr the moment that I heard that it existed. When I went to the GitHub repo and saw that it referenced scuttlebutt I was even more excited. 

 yeah, it's been a long time coming... i've been on IRC back in the olden days and the old forums and since facebook arrived social networking has turned into a steady descent into return to Television 

 "return to television"

an apt description