Claims like this strike a cord with nostriches but how would you prove it? Clients like primal that work with centralized relays can trivially suppress or amplify narratives by just adding seconds of delay to certain replies. Subtleties like that would take huge effort to detect. And being selective about the bot armies that are let through ...
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It was verified by others. Only Primal users not being able to see these specific notes on a certain topic after arguing on a primal developers post on this certain topic had issues loading the notes.
The way theyre setup, suppressing content is incredibly easy because users can only see what gets loaded from their caching server
"caching" server.
Clients could decide to allow Alice to mute Bob such that Carol can't see Bob's replies to Alice posts. That would be a kind of benign explanation that still includes narrative control but then that same client should also tell Bob that his replied will only be visible on alternative clients.
Im not talking about how clients should work. What does what you said even have to do with how primal users read from their caching server?
Im talking about people that follow me that couldnt see specific content on a specfic topic on a specific client due to this specific mechanism. What the fuck are you talking about?
It's not just comments, it's blatantly obvious in their trending feeds as well.