you heard of bitchat before nostr? that's cool
copy/pasting from another reply I had for my story:
I was trying to build B2B saas / consumer insights tool because the current stuff is really outdated, that forced me to figure out how to work with twitter/meta/reddit etc and their terrible (nonexistent) developer relations teams and zero API that devs can actually use, that put me down a legal and spiritual journey of "who actually owns this content?", that eventually led me to looking for alternatives around the same time bluesky launched publicly, I then learned about the AT protocol because I was curious about how it worked, I then went looking for other protocols and found nostr, I ended up liking everything about it more than atproto, and now I'm here
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That's a bit more specialised than my route, but I guess similar reasons drive people here.
Yeah, I stumbled across bitchat on X and I'm very inquisitive, always worth a look. Also, I was a mainstream socials user for business purposes and hated it. My entire life I have cherished my privacy and shunned corps so the core principles of nostr, web3 etc really appealed.
I never knew such a thing existed until only 6 mths ago, and was feeling fairly hemmed in by big tech. I now genuinely feel liberated.