What is Nostr?
elsat /
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2023-12-31 22:02:38

elsat on Nostr: 11 months ago I logged my first contribution to nostr. As I begun logging issue after ...

11 months ago I logged my first contribution to nostr. As I begun logging issue after issue, jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) mentioned something to the effect of “lol I don’t use github”.

tyiu (npub1yau…vjmf) reassured me that it was useful to him and other dev contributors to continue the product janitor journey. So I continued venturing further into the unknown to me FOSS.

At nostrica never have I felt more at home with folk I just met. Got to meet a few fellow Damus and nostr contributors. A mentor urged me to make a decision to stay the course of rent seeking, or continue to do help the mission of freedom tech (sipping a beer in his briefs and glasses from a pool at 2am) sharing valuable lessons from his FOSS journey.

Through Damus I was privileged to learn from a team of devs & designers. More broadly I interacted with and learned from many, varying FOSS contributors outside Damus. I am grateful for contributing alongside the anti-gulag tech mission folk.

While I don’t know what the future holds for me, I do know how it feels like to contribute with folk that share the same values, and mission.

This compass is now in my toolkit, and I am using it to evaluate roads walked, and future forks.

I have begun to understand FOSS through doing and error.

While not there yet, I aim to achieve my ikigai contributing to freedom tech.

Most of all I am grateful for having this experience.
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