There are actually apps tackling these challenges, now, but almost everyone uses Primal, so their efforts don't improve any user's actual experience.
And using large aggregators, with no spam filter, to build the threads, is a strategic mistake. See it on Jumble. You get the feed looking good, and then someone clicks on an entry and it's bots, crypto spam, and penis all the way down.
The fear of not-displaying something on here is ridiculously high. Let's just have lots of different clients, instead, or start users off with a more limited feed and let them dial up the dickortunity. It's not only relays, that need some diversity.
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The retention rates have gone down, since they launched. Right?
Primal is a blessing and a curse.
It's horrible for onboarding.
It suggests the same small group of people to everyone that signs up.
Including bots, nobody that's new to nostr wants to follow serious humour or whatever other bots primal suggests.
And it's a twitter clone, which means only twitter users will actually like it.
But it's still the most user friendly client
I'm newer and didn't use Primal so not all users will automatically use that. I settled on Amethyst for now because I want something actually decentral. I also want something that supports proper anonymous DM's and those reddit style interest groups. Amethyst has it all, and I find its lazy loading quite charming.
Primal I disliked because I could immediately tell its not decentral but its going trough their server which gives them control. That defeats the purpose of a decentral ecosystem. If I want that kinda thing i'd use soapbox / ditto since those instances anyone can host.
Suggestions for better decentralized clients are very much welcome though.
