I didn’t know Fuckstr was censored while using primal. I found out by random chance. What if primal censored you? I would have no way of knowing that you’re censored or that you’re still posting while I use primal. As a primal user, I’d just assume that you stopped using nostr. I would have no reason to switch to a different client. This is a problem. I understand the liability stuff is a problem. The state exists and it is violent. That’s fine. Primal can remove the posts from the primal relay if they really needed to. But they’re censoring through the caching relay which is effectively censoring other relays connected to the user’s primal client. Everyone using primal would then be subject to the same censorship attack. Connecting to the damus relay, or any other relay on primal, doesn’t matter if the caching relay is providing you the notes. How is this nostr? In terms of centralization, I don’t see a difference between primal and twitter at this point. And even though I’m sure Miljan is a much better person than Elon, he is still human and prone to the same shortcomings that all humans have.

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Assuming that we interact with similar people and I am still around posting notes you would have a horrendous experience viewing posts from anyone you follow who is still interacting with me Again I think there are better ways to handle problematic users/notes like how YakiHonne shows that the reply is from a muted user but I do not run primal and there could be reasons why primal takes the approach they take
It seems like this could be solved by making those parts of Primal optional, so that it becomes like any other client where you can choose your own relays entirely. I had a conversation with @Vitor Pamplona about that a while back where he said the client would have no defaults if he had his way. I assume this sort of thing is one reason why. I don't mind some level of moderation. I don't want to see child porn (and I did early on before I understood what Global was and how relays work). The whole point in my mind should be the choice of relays based on the sort of moderation you want. Not that no relay has any moderation at all. I don't want to see npubs posting child porn, for example. I'm just using that as a nuclear example. But there are other issues like harassment, illegal content, etc. I dont want to suffer those things. But I also may not want what Primal is doing. Maybe I think they go too far. Cool. Fuckem. Choice is the important issue.
Agree 100% with your post in general principle, but... Fuckstr's content is only a whisker above ReplyGuy's content. Lines have to be drawn somewhere, and I'm fine with relay operators drawing them. (I can't believe I just said something that sounds like a defence of Primal, though. They are spiteful censorious princesses, but they are still Nostr)