maybe I'm not well informed, what is the deal with these other clients? in what way are they not implementing nostr correctly? I feel like an open definition as any means that if these clients fail to provide the decentralization and censorship resistance, they will be abandoned eventually in favor of ones that do
I guess your note landed kinda harsh, making it seem like there is "a correct" implementation. Although I subscribe to decentralization, I have strong reservations regarding dictating how "things are supposed to be".
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I sympathize with your reservations, but disagree with this:
"they will be abandoned eventually in favor of ones that do"
This is not what happens by default, otherwise people would have long ago abandoned Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and so on and moved to Mastodon and they would be abandoning everything now and moving to Nostr. Although that can happen it's far from guaranteed and making people aware of the problems through harsh notes is part of trying to make it happen.
Oh, to answer you: most clients (aside from Snort, Coracle, Gossip, Voyage as far as I know) implement some variation of the "manual relay list + flood requests" I mentioned in the note quoted above.