has it been worth it for people who got a #primal premium account? #asknostr
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Well, that depends if those features are worth it to you and everyone here has different needs. For example. If you publish a lot of content and media, it might be worth it.
thank you for the input.
i'm new here and i do not yet know if it is or not. i'm curious to know from long term subscribers if it has been or if it is a means of showing support for devs and the ecosystem and that is why most subscribe?
You shouldn't have to pay for nostr to work better than it does
Devs are too focused on shitcoin grifting to develop nostr at a better pace
it's a little bit of both. most here understand that nothing is free and if a service doesn't have ads and doesn't make you the product, then they're going to need to make money somehow. many support devs with subscriptions, but most of these tools offered are valuable and useful.
Paid $1000 for lifetime subscription but "advanced" search still doesn't really work for me, etc
what was the main reason why you decided to get a lifetime subscription?
Primal & other nostr devs were censoring me, so I made it more embarrassing to censor me
For example, old posts would disappear and sheep would go along with devs saying it should cost money for posts to stay
Primal said they'll backup all posts forever with this lifetime subscription so if my posts get lost with age it might make some sheep stop going along with the "we're just doing business" bullshit
i thought censorship is not possible in a decentralized protocol. how did they do it?
There's nothing verifying data integrity in the nostr protocol yet, so clients and relays can easily censor stuff and pretend it's a bug or a feature, without being noticed too easily.
It's still a big issue for me - nostr:nevent1qqstc9gvazedwjjchlm8esehm7gfl7dshd5dyh8wxrpm06hdzaxjkggpzemhxw309ucnjv3wxymrst338qhrww3hxumnwq3q5pr6xlz88e2wfs2d2drdy5a56fl60t9kn9h65e07k6ecmh7tgvkqxpqqqqqqzuce4g3
Regarding my post, thought you were kidding. Seemed more likely than you manually visiting my profile day before and it not being there.
My brain auto-skips your wordle posts, so I can't really say for sure if that was the relays or just me, since I didn't know about that post until I replied to it 🤔
Definitely did manually check your profile in that timeframe though 🤙
Good news, those wordles will likely be going away soon. The thrill is gone
No longer giving me that riddlin' high 🥁
Is it my fault? 😢
No, though your comment probably accelerated my plans up a few more days lol. Just feels like a chore now, more completionist/ocd than fun
Tucking away a txt file of a hashtag about this so later I can come back and try to remember why I saved it
Most interesting thing I see is the UTF8 👀
Still haven't confirmed my understanding of what you said is complete on that vs ascii topic; that it's _only_ compression expecting wrong type of data that causes issues, but that was useful convo
That's where my knowledge runs out, I'm not really not sure where it causes issues these days myself tbh
Grug should know
All the notepad type apps be using UTF-8 now btw
Good to know on that last point.
Grug seemed to be in thick of it so would likely know but given he didn't chime in to add more on that particular point I'll assume it was close enough to complete and save bothering him with annoying questions for a more vital topic
Primal doesn't pull directly from relays it uses a cache system. This makes it smoother and ensures consistency of note availability, user counts, etc. This also let's them control what users see.
good to know. this trade-off must be worth it for the efficiency and user experience.
Some think so. I avoid it, as I find other apps to be better even without this cache system. It is a short term fix while other developers work on actual solutions that will make it unnecessary in the future.
But this applies only to users that don't have another relay configured right? Even primal allows to set your own relays, although I'm noticing my relays show "red" staus most of the time on primal...without any indication what the problem is, other clients connect to my relay list just fine. Not sure what the deal is here...
Primal doesn't directly access relays afaik.
Any idea what is the purpose of the Settings -> Network -> My relays on primal then? Does it cache them then?
It may cache from them, I'm not sure how they configure their cache. Running your own cache is an option too, and would let you control what is available in it.
But that primals container doest spin up as mentioned in the documentation. I tried it last night - I've to redo it tonight.
I've never tried. You can't use signing software to log into primal, a shortcoming that has existed for far too long. That's a no go for me personally. Pasting your nsec to login is bad form for any Nostr app, the ability to use signing software should be the norm.
Quite sure you can login via signer now, I'm logged in via chrome extension. But I don't like it for other reasons lol, something just doesn't sit right. But I've joined nostr like a week ago, so what do I know 😅 Just trying to understand how all this works...
Ah, I'm still waiting for the Android app to support it. Still nsec only.
Depends on how much you value shiny badges. In my experience it’s usually been for dev and ecosystem support