i never got involved with those things... what brought me to nostr was the fact it was bitcoiners and it was wide open decentralised relay based event bus system

my friend at the time, who had been funding me to do work on an anonymity relay network (like tor but lightning based) also got quite excited about the notion of a relay based event bus network protocol 

 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