I heard about it maybe 2 and a half years ago. I'm on the r/redditalternatives sub,  and was (still looking) for a Reddit alternative that wasn't ban happy or censorship. 

I used the fediverse and liked how you can pretty much do exactly that depending on what server. So I was curious is there was a fediverse reddit alternative. 

I found lemmy and was super excited. But it was so so so, fucking dead. I'd say, maybe 10 new posts a day. Not many reply.


It sucked.

Then I started acting up lol like I always do when I see people post dumb fucking shit. And I started to get Banned. 

So I researched for a free speech instance, and joined wolfballs instance. Where I met my peeps !

But sadly wolfballs came to a close eventually and stopped using Lemmy until the Exodus. I already had an account on exploding-heads.com  so I logged in and sure enough my peeps were still there !

Then exploding-heads.com came to a close and I joined lemdit.com where I met some more really cool peeps but they came to a close to. 

And I got banned from others instances though for trolling. I couldn't help it people just saying dumb shit and posting stupid shit acting as if they're smart I just have to call it out it's one of my pet peeves. But after that I'm done with it it's too stressful it's really really toxic and I don't want a part of it
 

 Best part about Nostr is no one can shut it down or take your account. Zero downtime 😎

I was never really affected by that stuff on Fedi because I ditch accounts after a few months, but it’s cool that that can’t even theoretically happen here. 

 I suppose someone could get muted by so many people here on nostr that they might start another account. Not saying it's the same scenario tho. 

 Yea true. I really do like that aspect as well 

 Interesting 🤔🤔🤔

Maybe no prior knowledge is the best. Who knows what might've put you off lol 

 It depends on who was explaining it. 

I friggin LOVE almost anything decentralized and distributed, so, that's why I bothered to try it in the first place. So far, I'm glad I did.  

 Yay 🙌  what were you primarily using before? 

 Nothing?  

 Lol that's good though. What do you like the most about nostr?  

 Same here. Saw a lot of nostr clients on f-droid. 

On boarding is a lot simpler and quicker (than Lemmy). It is amazing. 

 Seems like fdroid is an interesting billboard 👀 

 I think it is a coincidental. Those days, most nostr clients are updated and on the front page. Now I no longer see them in front page (of droidify) 

 It's interesting to see the prior step too.