Problem is, the users have no idea how Primal works. Heck, I spend a fair chunk of my time trying to wrap my head around how all this stuff works and still didn't know Primal wasn't verifying note signatures locally, only on their caching relay. Users need devs to help them understand how their clients work, and why it is important that they work that way as opposed to the way it has been implemented in other clients. Otherwise, users only understand what they experience, and Primal delivers a pretty good experience.

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Damn, I have so much opinion about this. 1. I am not sure knowing about why clients do what they do will speak louder than good experience. I mean, hack, google photos and drive still working quite decent together, compared to a nextcloud. Mine works also, but it is constant tuning, and effort. Aint nobody got time for that. But Google makes a lot of money on the data people feed it. Many people know it, but few act against it. It has a good experience, shitty on morals, but people use it. 2. I am not sure what percentage care about how the program/service works that they use. Either it works decently, so they use it, or it is too shitty, and dont bother. 3. I think people either are the victim of censorship, so they care, or they dont care at all about nostr uniqueness on this manner. And who cares about that will know their client. For these people, we definitely need to share these things. But a dev posting about this might not be enough. 4. Maybe we need to create an easily available table of features of clients. This would include note verification, usage of only a caching relay, storing search results connected to pubkey. Hmm, I will do this if it is not available already.
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