Don't trust Primal if you are ghost. You are less ghost if you trust someone like them. It's a company, and like every company they're trying to make money and constantly grow. Nostr is failing, bitcoin adoption is not fast, so earlier or later they will start to sell data (if not already).
Maybe I will if it still happening. But I need to install everything back just to prove you what I saw with my own eyes in real time. Not right now, sorry. BTW I saw people mentioned this primal's 'feature' not once
I compared Primal to Amethyst, and here's what bothered me about Primal: it filters certain content - replays, even specific users based on criteria only they seem to understand. It reloads media content with its own CDN, funnels all traffic through its cache relay, and keeps showing premium upgrade notification badge. Maybe you right and that's what I need to reduce connections count. But if my connection to Primal servers is bad it won't help...
I think I gave up on Nostr. It need too much connections to too much servers to work normal, not good (I think good is impossible). Now #Wisp trying to send me in 2023. Fuck it.
With Tor you can use anything that works trough Tor. But 1. Tor is slow and sometimes can't connect. 2. I can't teach everyone how to use Tor (bridges, SNI, troubleshooting). 3. So why do I need SimpleX working only on Tor?! I can chat with you if you want, haha.
The correct setup for now is to route the connection through servers inside the country, located in large data centers and have external connection. Direct connections to foreign VPS are quickly detected and cut off. Therefore you need proper set of SNI and a combination of obfuscation and VPN protocols to make traffic analysis as difficult as possible.
I think connections is the main problem. The second problem is clients never notice when you have poor connection, and event will just fking disappear after you push send button. Because clients can't predict what relays will do and if connection will be still bad or good enough to push event to relay at the exact moment when you try to publish something.