I only know 'Primal' on that list because I followed a ling in a bio and created that account. What are the rest, or even Primal?
Is Primal.net a thing of it's own or some Mastodon server?
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Also started with Primal, changed to FreeFrom, better feeling.
Primal is a dog shit client for android
you don't need the last three words of that sentence
Primal is a client, or an app if you will, built on top of the Nostr protocol. The Nostr protocol is a set of rules for communications using notes and other stuffs.
To put it simply, it's a set of rules, based on which, apps (read, clients) of different types can be built and all of which can communicate with each other like email. You have different email clients like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. But the beauty is, these clients/apps can communicate between them.
Unlike Primal, Masotodon is not based on Nostr, but another decentralized networking protocol named ActivityPub.
Primal is one of the apps/clients of Nostr. Nostr itself is not an app. It just governs how apps built on it should behave. Primal is like X (formerly, Twitter). As nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z mentioned, there are tens of apps (maybe not a hundred yet) built on the Nostr protocol. Some are for microblogging or Twitter-like, some are alternative to Instagram (actually there's just one as of now, and it's called Olas), you have alternative to reddit, hacker news, Medium, Substack, etc.
So to put it simply, the existing popular apps/sites can be built using the Nostr protocol and the advantage of that from the point of end-user is having open, decentralized, permission-less, anonymous social networking where you are in control of your data.
Welcome to #Nostr.