the caching server setting is Primal's warrant canary.
if they add a "bypass caching server, connect directly to relays" setting i'll be much more convinced they are good actors. and if it ever disappears thereafter, i'll know they've been captured.
...if they refuse to add it to begin with, i'll have no way to know which one it is, and i'll have to assume the worst. this is a healthy sort of pressure in a decentralized ecosystem.
i was similarly obnoxious about nsec sign-in, and to their credit they did ultimately add Amber login and i give them credit for that. this issue can simply go the same way and everyone will be happy
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This is a resonable ask.
Requiring users to do their verification that "they're still on nostr" using _other , non-Primal clients_ as the source of ultimate truth... That settles it, no?
what are they copy/pasting between? and when did i ever say it doesn't exist? that isn't my argument at all - my premise is a user who is only aware of Primal and uses that single client.
if you take issue with that premise, that's fine, but say so and we can adjust.
once you suppose additional clients, you concede that you have to use other sources of truth that DO VERIFY, in order to temporarily be safe TRUSTIing Primal. this is my entire point.
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