Darren on Nostr: In addition to plain old Saturday, for me anyway, this week marks my initial ...

In addition to plain old Saturday, for me anyway, this week marks my initial participation in Nostr (for the uninitiated, Nostr is a way to participate in the Web in a decentralized [ i.e. not beholden to Sluggo-the-proprietary-corporation-that-can-just-disappear-you-at-will ] myriad of ways).
To be honest, I really don't share the bitcoin zeal of a lot of others that inhabit this space. Suffice to say ... er, well ... beyond a certain threshold of energy consumption, technical processes begin to dictate social relations. As esoteric as that may sound, I'll leave it at that. But really, this sort of cryptographic identity that shares a through-line of sorts with cryptocurrency is just that and nothing more.
I work with the webrtc protocol which affords really nice decentralized peer connectivity via browser-to-browser. (For my new Nostr-nerd friends here, if there isn't a slick little 'signal-server' implemented for Nostr, that would be a nice tool. (In webrtc, you need a way to identify the browsers you want to connect to ... audio, voice, and a data-channel ... by way of this signal server. I'd think that shifting some of the transport to a data-channel thusly would be sleek, even robust. If there is such a thing, don't hesitate to drop a line.
Okay. Techno-jazz out of the way, brings me to another impression from this initial survey of this fledgling and open-ended protocol. And that is a factor that I suspect will evolve for its obvious benefit. I'm calling it a breezy entry way to Nostr. Getting Aunt Sally on board is another way of putting it. To put it as rant-free as I can: All this supposed liberty and boost to a shared public utility to encourage and promote open public discourse – that Nostr could seemingly avail – is just another version of a technocrat's gleeful cheer of "neato!" until folks with shitty old android phones can use it as easily as said-Sluggo's onboarding.
In closing, aloha and mahalo (thanks) to my seemingly kind-hearted new Nostril friends. (that Haw'n reference may "dox" myself as to actually living in a particular place (living-context) on the Earth. I'll save that rap for a penchant for using this stuff within actual community (read: not 'community' predicated on "hey! we don't do proximity here" heh.