Damus
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I got banned from Primal for promoting a new decentralized freedom technology stack ( pubky.app )

Primal is excellent software and I have a lot of respect for their work and UI/UX design (even if it's just a clone of X's design). Also, Paul and his beautiful family are an inspiration - PV!

However, how is this any better than X? Elon doesn't ban people for promoting Nostr on X, but Primal banned me for promoting Pubky.app ? I'm using Amethyst to post this note - hopefully Victor is a genuine cypherpunk.

I'm still rooting for Nostr and Primal (and now Amethyst), but I'm disheartened to learn that all the "Nostr is permissionless free speech" talk is just empty marketing copy. I was under the impression that getting banned wasn't even possible, but now it's painfully clear that Primal is centrally controlled.

We're never gonna win if we keep acting like greedy fiat crabs in a bucket. The Big Tech oligopoly isn't our biggest threat - it's greed, technology tribalism, ego, cultism and fear of new and superior technologies.

The good news is that there's a new, truly permissionless and decentralized protocol that gives users new superpowers (tags, edit, delete, etc.). No loading lag, no missing notes or notifications, no "mystery cache severs", no annoying bots and scammers. No shameless shills preying on the plebs with financial shenanigans and copium.

To the real ones: See you over on Pubky.app

[Note: I tried to upload a screenshot showing my banned Primal account, but apparently I'm banned from the Primal Blossom file server too - so I lost all of my media since joining Nostr. Hopefully the NIP95 upload will work]


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£e0ń gönGßangeR · 1w
Bans are annoying but it's the price we pay 4 freedom? 🗽 https://image.nostr.build/21687ca93fbf39ad2ab91ab265799db0fe12be83d27c935e1b328cd5527615d0.jpg
🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 1w
Primal is such trash lmao
U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D · 1w
Vitor, sorry for getting your name wrong. Amethyst FTW
CensorThis · 1w
Primal is CIA ware, act accordingly
Hasn · 1w
Be that as it may, Nostr is superior to whatever this is. Having to agree to terms and conditions to create a public key ?? 😅 That is called regression.
Chuck Langstrumpf · 1w
how did they ban you? can you not use primal with your pubkey at all?
Achilles · 1w
Interesting read nostr:nprofile1qqsgqke57uygxl0m8elstq26c4mq2erz3dvdtgxwswwvhdh0xcs04scprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvvfjx2a3wve6kufsrqlt 😮‍💨
Iggy · 1w
How do we read you on Primal though?
miljan · 1w
How exactly are you banned? I am on Primal and I see your content just fine.
caleb · 1w
Seeing the note available on Primal now, but not earlier
Ryu Santiago · 1w
Seeing your subsequent replies, if you're worried about coming off as "spammy" in your promotion of something, Amethyst definitely isn't the client for you; if you need proof of it, go on and ask Vitor to justify his bullshit "spam" filter that's opt-out by default, and how his treatment of Verita (...
U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D · 1w
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