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weev 1 month ago
Primal is a special edge case, in that it is a centralized client. The feed of posts comes from Primal’s servers — that’s why in the recent AWS outage, Primal stopped working entirely. I specifically want my followers using any client but Primal, because using Primal is essentially anointing them with the permanent power to censor people’s timelines forever (whether willfully, or more likely forced to by regulators and App Store operators). It is recreating the problem of the fediverse, and a centralizing attack on Nostr. Maybe this is a kook position, but I am on Nostr because I specifically do not want a central authority being able to shape discussions.

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weev 1 month ago
I will admit that Primal has a very nice user experience. But it is easier to write centralized clients than decentralized clients. Making a centralized client for Nostr makes it much easier to spend resources making a very compelling UI. But it is also two steps back with that step forward.
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TCK 1 month ago
I tried Coracle and it doesn't really work. It doesn't seem to let you interact with anyone else's posts. Primal isn't perfect, it takes you back to the top of someones feed when you return from an individual post, but it's more functional in general I'll probably try some more