primal is unique among nostr apps in that it relies on a super relay: a caching server
the caching server pulls notes and events from all known relays, the app then reads from the server rather than ...
Seems like it flies in the face of dumb relay, smart client.
But yes, Primal is free to do things as it chooses. Definitely wouldn't be what I'd onboard people with who I was bothering to onboard anyway. But I'm not onboarding normies anyway. The world of Meta platforms exists much like AOL existed in the 90's and early 2000's so as to quarantine them from the rest of the Internet in a place where they can defecate all over themselves without bothering the rest of us.
Primal seems like it's trying to go the Ubuntu route. That is, make things usually work easier for the casual user that doesn't know their way around. It also suffers from the same major drawback: when it fails at this, it leaves the user with far less recourse to correct what is going wrong and do what they actually would like to do, at the cost of reading a thing or two.
I'll stick with the Slackware approach. Nothing wrong with a little friction as long as the means are there to overcome it and learn a thing or two in the process.
But yes, Primal is free to do things as it chooses. Definitely wouldn't be what I'd onboard people with who I was bothering to onboard anyway. But I'm not onboarding normies anyway. The world of Meta platforms exists much like AOL existed in the 90's and early 2000's so as to quarantine them from the rest of the Internet in a place where they can defecate all over themselves without bothering the rest of us.
Primal seems like it's trying to go the Ubuntu route. That is, make things usually work easier for the casual user that doesn't know their way around. It also suffers from the same major drawback: when it fails at this, it leaves the user with far less recourse to correct what is going wrong and do what they actually would like to do, at the cost of reading a thing or two.
I'll stick with the Slackware approach. Nothing wrong with a little friction as long as the means are there to overcome it and learn a thing or two in the process.
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