Gotcha ok. That probably makes the user experience better but it’s a tradeoff because they could censor you at some point. That also means that they would filter out spam and CSAM content as well. It’s a tradeoff.
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Do you remember when ralf, onyx and 4-5 other npubs were censored by primal? They did that with their caching relay. That tradeoff is not the best. I dont see any csam on nostr wine for example. I dont need a caching relay to control what i see. I already have a list of relays i use
No I don’t. And I can see why you’d think it’s not a good tradeoff. But that’s the beauty of nostr, you can just take your npub and go to a different client. Idk who those npubs were or why they were censored. My guess is that primal felt it was best for their business to do that. Not saying it’s right or wrong. Not saying that it is better for their business or not. But they felt it was the best thing to do at that time and made the decision. It is what it is. And it won’t be the last time something like that happens. That verita guy said he got censored by amethyst.
At some point, dangerous things will be planned on nostr and the largest clients and relays will be pressured to censor those as well. I can’t imagine any large relay allowing users to publicly plan things like kidnapping, rape, or terrorist attacks. That shit will get blocked.
You dont know about this? Oh man! So many memes came out of that. Some had figured that Primal trending list could be gamed by zaps. So they started zapping some notes to have them in the trending list, to prove a point. Instead of doing their research, to figure out what was the cause of this, Primal just censored the notes of the npubs that went trending. Ralf (less active now but hes Ewelina’s bf. They used to go to a lot of bitcoin nostr conferences), Onyx (you know who Onyx is right?) and a few others.
Everybody called primal out. They apologized later
Oh I remember that issue but didn’t know they did that. It’s probably not an easy fix and just censoring the people who abused it was probably a quick fix. Looks like it backfired on them. Part of running a business is making mistakes and learning from it. It is what it is. I don’t agree with everything they do. The same can be said about other clients as well. But I don’t see the rationale for the other EEE claims so I’ll wait for sol to chime in 🤝
Onyx got censored because they couldn’t make an NSFW filter
Yeah sounds like they’re taking shortcuts. It was probably the same rationale for the zap censoring. Maybe it’s due to time constraints or just laziness idk. But the backlash probably taught them a lesson.
🚩 censor 🚩 narcissists 🚩 croatian🚩 dEcEnTrAlIzEd centralized cache 🧛♂️