I do agree that you can develop real friendships with people online...and having said that, I've never really been into the social media kind of thing...

Nostr though I see as different--it's more a "free speech" platform (although I can now see it's going to be MUCH more than that...)

I've seen the future...and it's Nostr... 

 I gently submit that it is a protocol, not a platform, but then you might have meant that the protocol givesone a platform.