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weev 4 days ago
Primal main source of venture capital is a guy that founded a failed Mexican solar energy company (literal glownigger) with money from Max Levchin and has no real success stories. This leads me to believe that he’s just a proxy by which people close to the US surveillance state try to financially subvert Nostr. But beyond that, Primal is architecturally compromised. It is a centralized service that prevents you from viewing Nostr the protocol and instead has you viewing Primal’s extremely centralized caching server, over which they regularly exercise the powers of censorship and editorial control. Most clients outside Primal have multiple relays by default, most or all of which they do not control. This includes Amethyst, Damus, Wisp, etc. If chooses Damus to block me on their relay, most people are still going to see my content because I am publishing to the other relays. Also most people can, via the relay hints provided by nevents when you quote a post, fetch my content from relays I post to even if you do not directly follow me or subscribe to my relay. If Primus blocks me from their caching server’s algorithmic feed, then I am silently erased and you will never see my content again. The only way this is different from Twitter is because people can take their nsecs elsewhere, but they provide no notice to users or opportunity for transparency as to what content they have removed. Nobody is afforded any report on what content Primal has explicitly put in front of their eyeballs, nor what has been removed.