A lot of the notes I boost don't even show up on primal. I don't understand if they're censoring folks as some claim, or if it's that they don't allow cross relay promotion? It's a shame because I see that as the best way to discover new folks, and the attitude on the primal trending pages is super stale.
They need to be open to more talking points than just the Bitcoin influencers and the anti-zionists. It's hard enough to onboard normies without the toxic boys club on Primal.
Lack of cross relay integration is clearly by design, imo. They just want what the Primal team, and what their influencers talk about, to trend. It's a client that strictly adheres to the attention-starved influencer mentality. Barely anything educational with little meaningful engagement.
Yea I agree. They could at least get better influencers, the ones on primal trending seem like they mostly regurgitate Twitter outrage content and it's boring, like there's a reason I left legacy social media come on bring a fresh take.
This is why i love Jumble. The ability to choose content from one specific relay, at a time, is an essential feature for any Nostr client, imo.
Yup now someone tell vitor that so he can stop breaking amethyst.
I left Amethyst awhile ago. Fun while it lasted🤷.
Does Amythest not do this? I get a variety of content on Amythest but if I can get more on Jumble I'd be tempted 🤔
Amethyst pulls straight from the relays of who you follow, pretty much the polar opposite of primal. It doesn't do single relay browsing like jumble does though. They are the best two clients in my opinion, each have their strengths.
Amethyst just places all content from your follows into your feed.
Ok good that's what I thought it did
Amethyst now you automatically connect to every relay that's on a person's profile if you follow them. So if one npub got 1000 relays & you follow it now your just automatically connected to all those relays & you have to block the ones you don't want to be connected to manually. It causes global feed to load clunky that half the notes won't even load properly, notifications got worse since this big change & now theres bugs that still waiting on fixes for over 2 months now?
I have to switch between apps now just to see notes load properly. Half the time I look at my own profile from amethyst & not even 2/3rds of my notes load. Every other client you can see em all.
Oh that's very interesting! I don't know that I ever look at global so I haven't had that problem, but I can understand how it would be an issue!
you have to broadcast the note to the primal relay, boosting alone doesn't necessarily do this.
Ah! This is a nuance that I didn't understand previously, thank you for bringing it up! Would proper protocol be to boost and broadcast, or would just broadcasting it suffice?
boosting references the note on your list of kind 1 events to your relays, but broadcasting copies the event to your relays
nostr is dumb lol
I think most apps will broadcast on a boost. YMMV depending on client of course.
Hmm ok but as a client primal does not do this? Maybe it is primal which is dumb not just Nostr?
Could be. I'm not sure as a avoid primal.
Hmm ok. I think it's time for me to figure out a wallet outside of primal then... I'm hosting an event next week and hope to onboard folks to Nostr but while I knew I didn't love primal I didn't realize it was that problematic.
Good luck at your event. I recommend trying Blink wallet or maybe Minibits.
Ok I will check these out too thank you!
That's a dumb rule.
