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.