Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

The harm in practice is that they have the ability to censor posts, and eventually they will be forced by EU regulators, among others, to do so, if Nostr ever has significant amount of traction. You are basically saying you want a centralized system. If you like Primal, you should just use X or Bluesky. I agree that Nostr onboarding of new users is atrocious and many of the apps are extremely unappealing to tons of people, but Primal should solve these problems without compromising the integrity of Nostr’s decentralized nature.

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vinney...axkl vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com 1 month ago

They could undo this wrong in a fairly straightforward manner. I'll be happy if they do (just like I was happy when they finally added signer integration) but the longer they don't, the more suspicious i'll become. View quoted note →

vinney...axkl

"simply" being able to bypass the caching server would totally solve it (+ some honest explanation in the settings). "simply" in quotes because I'm sure that would be a large refactor to their networking code. But worth it in my opinion, as the guy not paying the bills ;) > "Uncheck this box to bypass the caching server and get content directly from the relays set below. Note: the caching server may filter content and order posts at the discretion of the server operator. You may supply your own caching server, use the Primal default, or bypass the feature altogether" That would clear up user confusion, build trust, and avoid this whole spat we find ourselves participating in.

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Tauri tauri@mynostr.com 1 month ago

> You are basically saying you want a centralized system. If you like Primal, you should just use X or Bluesky. You assumed I use Primal for their curated content — I don’t. I just found out they even do that, which only proves the point I was making. And you’re not the only one who missed it. It’s funny how often devs, when faced with feedback they don’t like, default to “if you don’t like my toy, go play with the other crappier ones.” The irony is those “crappier” ones usually work better, they simply choose different tradeoffs. Trying to steer user behavior through shaming or condescension rarely works.

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