As a primal user, you will not see the posts of users that primal censors. Even if you never mute that user, ALL primal users will not be able to see that user’s posts if primal chooses to filter those posts out of their caching relay. You’re not seeing notes from the relays. You’re seeing notes from the primal caching relay. This isn’t very different from centralized Twitter. The saving grace is that you can use a different client to see a censored user’s notes. But how would you know that user is being censored? How would you know if they’re partially censored? And if you have to navigate out of primal at some point to see notes that they don’t want you to see, why not just use a different client entirely right now?
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Fairly easy to spot the censored users because the UX sucks ass and you see people you are following responding to themselves 🤣
Again it’s a free market and open protocol which is why we are all here.
Primal is a great tool to onboard new users and grow nostr adoption. I know you probably do not want to hear this but We need even more normie friendly clients that are even more censored than primal haha…
we as people that care about the protocol need to inform/educate users of the tradeoffs
I dont understand the question. As you say, "you can use a different client to see a censored user’s notes." That is the entire point.
I do think that good alternatives to primal are very important, but again, imo what they're doing is far from stupid from a liability perspective and changes nothing about whether you can still access the content.
"How would you know that user is being censored?"
That's why nostr needs apps with p2p data verification. Complex version would be apps contacting each other over Tor and comparing databases, simple version would just be every post/reply including an attached hash of the user's/thread's other last 10 posts.
