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!