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weev 7 months ago
The harm in practice is that they have the ability to censor posts, and eventually they will be forced by EU regulators, among others, to do so, if Nostr ever has significant amount of traction. You are basically saying you want a centralized system. If you like Primal, you should just use X or Bluesky. I agree that Nostr onboarding of new users is atrocious and many of the apps are extremely unappealing to tons of people, but Primal should solve these problems without compromising the integrity of Nostr’s decentralized nature.

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> You are basically saying you want a centralized system. If you like Primal, you should just use X or Bluesky. You assumed I use Primal for their curated content — I don’t. I just found out they even do that, which only proves the point I was making. And you’re not the only one who missed it. It’s funny how often devs, when faced with feedback they don’t like, default to “if you don’t like my toy, go play with the other crappier ones.” The irony is those “crappier” ones usually work better, they simply choose different tradeoffs. Trying to steer user behavior through shaming or condescension rarely works.