Most discussion on Nostr seems to be about Bitcoin, which I just don't care about. But even if the social media side of it is a bit one-sided, the protocol itself seems like a cool solution to various other problems.

Tashkent has pretty cool vibes.

#Rust as a language is still one of my favourites. It's just really comfortable to write, if we ignore async. However, its ecosystem is just ridiculous at this point. It's like JavaScript - everything has 500+ deps, complexity is out of control ....

NIP 39 seems strange to me. My published verifications include no proof that I control the key (compare to the old Keybase, for example).