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 What are your feelings about nostr? 
 Feels like you at YahooMessenger Rooms … talk with stranger people but fell like friends 😂 
 I’m not a big user of any social media because I’m afraid of bombing if what I write is wrong or misunderstood. 
I feel the courage is coming back on Nostr. 
 Like fukking a cirgin ! Feels good to come 💦 early! 
 It’s the new internet 
 Optimism 
 It varies, sometimes I think it’s very cool, sometimes I think it’s too niche in the bitcoin world and might end up siloed (I appreciate it can’t be technically but could be socially).

There’s still a big gap between the average Nostr user and perceptions, at least as far as the Fediverse.

In the real world? I don’t know anyone who’s even hear of this place.

All that said, I like it here. I should probably post more thoughtful stuff but my brain flits around too much. 
 Feels like it unlocks the future of “super apps” 
 I feel people are distracted by meta & others noises. Right now nostr is in its early stage from distractraction to traction and from traction to action.  
 Tip of the Spear! 
  A proof of concept for open protocols that will ultimately lead to freedom of speech. Besides that it is fun. 🫂💪🍻 
 #nostr is the best , i never was using some social network like now LFG 
 It’s hard to explain, partly feels like the internet of the mid 90s that I miss so much, but with a modern spin… 
 Promising  
 For now, it feels like a group of ppl that are gathered around a certain principles & beliefs and become friendly to one another. 
 A fun time sink with v4v faucets, multiple plugholes and pipes leading to other time sinks. You can’t stop the flow… 
 Pretty warm and friendly to be honest 😁 
 It keeps getting better everyday. 
 It's a convoluted echo chamber with a on-ramp which is VERY hard to get onto. 
 What it stands for and the potential it has are currently unmatched by any other form of social media, but the barrier to entry is still way too high for large-scale adoption. 
 Good place to be and is the future. 
 Somehow, I had more meaningful interactions with people here than I ever had on Twitter while I had a profile there a few years ago, despite just a fraction of the followers/following. 
 Hope, so much potential... As with bitcoin I couldn't care less about mass adoption, I care about it becoming the right tool users will arrive either when they reconise the value or they have the need for its properties. 
 It really kicks the llama’s ass! 
 I like its path.. 
The energy of first days is still there..
Builders are still building, and there's more every day..
Different stuffs are starting to collide and interact with each other..
Less new users are abandoning it after first days or week (at least it's my perception)..
More contents and kind of users are approaching, everyday more difficult to stay updated..

..my feelings are all on positive side. WE ARE GONNA WIN THIS. 🫂💜🍀 
 #Nostr feels like: 

https://m.primal.net/JVRL.png  
 Take a moment. Take a drag. Look away. Exhale. Look back. Understanding. 
 It will eat the internet, slowly,
having plebs living in parallel worlds. One part having a centralized life, the other a decentralized life. The two will interact sometimes, clash, argue, fall in love. Others start getting infected with the purple orange virus, seeing a freedom they long for. Nostr will slowly eat away the centralized tumor, devolve it, vibrating back our human connectivity into the Whole 
 Still find it slightly confusing on the UX front. It’s still not as smooth as other social apps, but it’s certainly better than it was a year ago. 

There’s so much technical complexity going on under the hood. 
 I’m digging it so far!!