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What did #nostr mean to you when you started nostering?
What does it mean now?

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Ah, now I understand your question better. Back in December, I was looking for a way to cut my ties with Twitter. I was already using it much less, having seen the trajectory it was on. I was more or less already done with centralized social media, as I was getting so much less out of it than I used to. I wanted to find that “Twitter in the early days” feeling again, and it sure as hell wasn’t on Mastodon. If nostr hadn’t come along when it did, I probably would have been digitally homeless by now. I saw something really raw and interesting and unique in the first iteration of Damus and the Astral browser app, and just started following anyone who seemed interesting, I found Jack, who surprised me early on by replying to some of my posts. I realized that this protocol had the power to finally democratize the conversational internet and take power away from tech giants. Having already been exposed to bitcoin, this really spoke to me, and when I realized that the Lightning network was baked into the system, I was completely sold. Whatever it was, I wanted to be here, and more to the point, I wanted to help it grow and succeed.