Yeah, same here. I'm a fan of bitcoin, but was just looking for a more open, decentralized, less trashy socials. Zaps was totally new to me. I like nostr.

What did lead you to Nostr, if you don't mind me asking?

Corporate/enterprise data analytics lol I took really weird path I was trying to build B2B saas / consumer insights tool because the current stuff is really outdated, that forced me to figure out how to work with twitter/meta/reddit etc and their terrible (nonexistent) developer relations teams and zero API that devs can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

how'd you find it?

Ultimately via a random comment on Bitchat. I had started reading up about web3 and blockchain, obviously crypto was everywhere but then socials was mentioned a fair bit too. I was wanting to close my mainstream socials so I just jumped in. How about yourself? When? And how you finding it?

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reply I had for my story: I was trying to build B2B saas / consumer insights tool because the current stuff is really outdated, that forced me to figure out how to work with twitter/meta/reddit etc and their terrible (nonexistent) developer relations teams and zero API that devs can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

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.

that's awesome, glad you're here!

I found it in Bitcoin adjacent communities but this was in the early days where there was like 200 people at most and it was just nerds that happened to have a Bitcoin background…

That's actually one of the best answers I've gotten to that question. Welcome to nostr :)

how has retention been so far? are the same folks still here? just curious

enshittification has happened and now 90% of users use a centralized client that rhymes with primate, and it has become bitcoin slop some people like fiatjaf completely lost any semblance of credibility, for example I used to be a major contributor & maintainer of the NIPs repo but a few other people that wanted to allow pushing out slop fast ruined the “specs” process and eventually I got kicked out for what I presume was saying “you did this wrong” to too many garbage specs some that remain are @balas @0xtr @jb55 etc..

I got on in its first year of development. Yes through bitcoin twitter but there wasn’t much anybody on nostr but I had already been looking to leave Twitter. Made sense to be here early

Followed.

if you have started with primal, I would recommend going through your follow list and unfollowing a majority of them. a good chunk of those people are indirectly affiliated with the client that push slop or are dead accounts

Interesting, I actually did have to do that - was really confused when onboarding at the start

there appears to be some lore I'm not familiar with; I saw some arguments on my feed about similar things a few days ago but felt out of the loop lol appreciate the info

Cool, welcome to nostr Kyle🤙 What got you into nostr?

very odd journey here, copy/pasting from another reply I had: 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

have learned a lot and will be applying the nostr principles into the work I'm doing now lots to do

Lol, cool story! Twitter API restrictions is insane, you can’t do much without having to pay them a whole bunch of money first..

“We’re the global town square, but make sure to abide by our TOS first”

Winning

Mine was based on starcraft broodwar, bite me

primal is far from having 90% of users