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I think I have quite the interesting answer to this particular survey. Only if you wouldn't mind reading an essay of course.
A while ago, I started learning about Common Lisp (CL), because it seemed quite interesting with its unusual syntax and almost fanatical advocates. I learned a lot about it, loved it, started using it for fun things. Eventually I got to the point where I wanted to do a bit of GUI programming with CL, so started learning what seemed like the most interesting (and reasonably popular) library for that: McCLIM.
While I was doing that however, I got stuck quite often. The examples given in the documentation seemed hard to interpret (and sometimes even contradictory, though that may have been my lack of understanding) so I wanted to see some example code other people wrote. While I was looking for apps written using clim, I came across observatory (https://github.com/jstoddard/observatory) which seemed like an interesting app.
Observatory seemed interesting not because it seemed like exactly the thing I wanted (it was) but also because it's a gemini client. I had never heard of gemini. After that, a bit of googling led me down *that* rabbit hole, which (after even more browsing) led me to nightfall city. One of the pages listed in nightfall city was the pub, and after some browsing it quickly caught my attention in how laidback it all was.
The entire thing seemed so interesting to me. Small, interconnected communities almost never even heard of, surviving on simplistic web pages and custom-made protocols...
Kind of sounded like a dream at first, to be honest. It was refreshing compared to the never-ending noise pollution that is modern social media.
So anyway, that was my journey here. I'm not usually one to believe in fate, but maybe there's some of that here.