Please can you fix the bug where people cant follow their first person. It's the biggest complaint I hear over and over about primal. What we do now is send people over to nostrudel, then tell them to come back to primal. Even that sometimes fails. Its so hard for new users when the client doesnt let them follow anyone, without giving any reason why.
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if you can provides steps to reproduce this error, i can try and fix it in notprimal. i haven't encountered this issue myself.
start a new account on web, and try and follow someone, happens for me every time, or read what people on reddit say, search for primal
just tried and it works fine for me. i just created this account and followed jack and it worked.
https://notprimal.lol/p/npub196pn0z8vu43y64v99y9rv7gv3ngl457htsenfldl78ney7as67asqqcwfg
This is a problem with Nostr itself, with the design of kind 3 follow lists. It needs to be fixed in the NIPs, but nobody will do it because it would break all existing follows.
Ditto has the same "problem" as Primal, where you can't follow unless we already have a follow list for you. Because it's worse to delete a person's entire follow list by mistake than it is to prevent them from being able to follow.
I'm working on a design for a "sync profile" modal to fix this, where it gives you the option to try finding your follow list, or to create a fresh one (destructive).
Nice! I may be able to help with this. I'm going to go ahead and start writing a version of follows that works.
But its really hard to get started for LOTs of users. Most dont stick around to give a bug report.