Here’s why Primal should be a No-Go for anyone who decided to use #nostr ‼️👇 🔴 Core privacy concerns - Centralized caching layer Introduces a single point that can observe your activity - Breaks the “no one sees everything” assumption of Nostr - Trust in Primal infrastructure You must trust Primal’s backend not to log, analyze, or manipulate data - Reintroduces Web2-style trust dependency 🔑 Key management risks - Private key exposure risk Entering your nsec directly into the app increases attack surface Compromise = total identity loss (no recovery in Nostr) 🕵️ Metadata & surveillance risks - Social graph leakage Even with encryption, interactions (who/when) can be visible - Enables deanonymization through pattern analysis - Activity tracking potential Cached queries and feeds can reveal: what you read who you follow when you’re active 🧾 Identity & financial linkage - Wallet integration risks Lightning/KYC flows can link: real identity ↔ Nostr pubkey Breaks pseudonymity permanently 🌐 Network control limitations - Reduced relay sovereignty Less control over relay selection Encourages reliance on Primal’s preferred infrastructure 🧠 Content & perception risks - Feed shaping / soft censorship Algorithmic or curated feeds influence what you see. Not protocol censorship, but client-level narrative control. ⚖️ High-level privacy trade-off - Convenience over sovereignty Faster, smoother UX in exchange for: more data exposure more trust assumptions weaker decentralization in practice 🧩 Bottom line (maximalist view) - Moves Nostr away from pure trustlessness - Reintroduces: central points of observation metadata leakage vectors identity correlation risks 👉 Verdict: Primal is functionally convenient but privacy-regressive compared to a fully self-sovereign Nostr setup‼️