on primal you only read from a single relay, theirs. when you configure a relay its only for which relays you write to I believe.
on damus the relay list are both the relays you read from and write to.
some clients even go further and allow you to configure relays you write to and read from separately.
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Is that is why there is a major lag for notifications to hit? I've been experimenting keeping Primal, Ditto and Coracle open in browser. Even thought I've been posting via Primal, I typically get notifications back on it in Ditto 1st, Coracle 2nd and Primal a distant 3rd.
Yeah they are bottlenecked by a single server. Its why my account never worked on primal i suspect
Thanks for this info Will. I have been using primal a lot but will now spread the love more on Damus (the OG of iOS clients)
They are not reading from a single relay. They are reading from a single caching service (https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-caching-service) that connects to the relays.
This is a centralizing factor but the service is open source and could be self hosted. I don’t know of anyone doing it though.
so in this case , in theory, it would be up to primal to fix the issue of the replyguy spam?
or would it just be up to users to change relays?
what's a good way to understand what relays are , like what would be a compassion to some existing thing or tech?
This answers the question around those unsavoury posts I mentioned nostr:npub1cn670f663n3ks02jnnlsvd5y88zjnefy8343ykaxs7y3nzzketrsrjwt8a
Primal is straight LARPing due to this. 🥲
Can’t believe even their native app forces you to only read from their relay.
Didn’t they need too much personal info to get a wallet too…right?
How to confirm this?
If this is the case that primal is only read from their relay/cache…that explains
A. Why notes and stuff aren’t congruent on Primal even if I have the same set of relays I do in Damus
B. Why they are experiencing these debilitating lags of data populating to the point the app is unusable
Transparently the only reason I went with Primal to start my #nostr life a week ago was
1. Easy wallet as I kept hitting road blocks with Alby and self custody
2. I liked it was same “app” mobile for mobile and web
3. I was testing clients
I do 95% of my #proofofwork here in #Damus and only (try to) pull up primal if I have to look up a hashtag or npub/user I can’t recall or get Damus to populate.
I love the idea YakiHonne is building but too many features with issues leading to poor UX
