> where people don't like to "give it up" for newer accounts, that's a bit of an over-correction, if that makes sense. Agreed yeah. Too skeptical maybe, but also look where we are now. 50% of shared content is LLM generated text or images, and from people we know XD Then you get rugged over an over by a gaggles of influencers Joking, but I think back then, for me anyway, it was more opinionated (believe it or not) and the only engagement you got was on bolt statements. I like to think my bold posts _were_ intentional and meant something and still stand by many of my idealistic positions, but those things got to the primal trending list. I mean it was also fun seeing @Laeserin playing with those trending systems, primal, nostr.band and others. She could stir the pot 3 times a day breaking everyone's analytics with an article link and a one-liner. Proving that all the trendy software was broken and part of the reason they all hate her XD But yeah I think it was way more influencers in the feeds. Picking fights with strangers in the comments. It was much more work tuning your follows, finding alternate feeds. Stuff broken even more than it is now. Knowing that no matter what you replied to there was a 10% chance you'd get a response. I think there was more subculture too. You'd see more chats about religion, or economics, or other nostr topics, like how I met @MichaelJ and @Laeserin working on a sub culture of nostr technology. Nostr social was buzzing away but many of us were brainstorming on the outskirts.

But yeah 22 was bad. I think my first client experience was Iris. I spent all of 2023 building my signer while lurking and it was finally working by august 2023 so I could interact with a few different aliases. I think 24 was a good year in general for nostr, things were more stable, we were pooping on primal, there were meetups being discussed. You know what I forgot? People had corny chat and hivetalk rooms daily or even weekly were us randoms just hopped in and chatted. There were also copious live streams of events like sports ball many of us just popped in to hang out. I do miss that.