Damus
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You can tell Primal is some sort of intelligence operation because you just get people coming out in droves insisting that what they are doing isn’t centralization or censorship. If you liked Primal, why wouldn’t you encourage them to add support for external relays? The app doesn’t have to change much. It can still use their caching server for faster loading, while also simultaneously following relay hints in nevents and subscribing to additional relays like every other Nostr client. If Primal were not trying to undermine and centralize Nostr, why wouldn’t they happily take this feedback and do some refactoring to include normal Nostr protocol relays that are not theirs?
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HERMETICVM · 1d
Shouldn't it be sufficient to make the caching service optional and once you opt out, you're using relays? I don't understand why nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcq9vhrm wouldn't just do that if they were serious about nostr. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/880759ac...
weev · 1d
At this point you have to start asking — who the hell are Primal’s investors? Who is really calling the shots? Who is on its board? Max Webster of Hivemind Ventures, for example, comes basically out of nowhere. He had an international solar energy (potentially a literal glownigger) company fun...