🤣 how embarrassing for the best funded app on nostr.
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Literally marketed as "Le App Bitcoin", and then they use legit shitcoin libraries. 😅
All of the #Monero guys, who have had to put up with so much crap on here, including from #Primal fanboys, must be looking at this like
nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka did you see this go down?
I uninstalled Primal over a month ago. It's been lame for too long. After keeping it installed and trying to like it as a backup client for ten months, it was time to say goodbye. What went down? The inclusion of crypto wallets?
They've been using crypto libraries, while marketing themselves as a Bitcoin app, yes, and it sort of bubbled up, due to an attack on the library.
Primal web repo hasn't moved in 6 months, not even a bug-fix, but they rolled back this particular commit, last night. 😅
Their whole "Bitcoin Nostr" schtick always rubbed me the wrong way, anyway, as Nostr isn't supposed to just be for Bitcoiners, and they turned Nostr into a feeder for Strike KYC, but whatever.
Oh wow! I missed that. That sounds very hypocritical. And I agree—I've said it time and time again—if Nostr is only for Bitcoiners, it's dead in the water. But deceptive marketing is not the way. Thanks for the heads up!
I say let the poor marketing continue. Could be a great way to help them dig their own grave🤷♂️.
I'm a Monero guy right after Bitcoin Guy
meh
Primal is obviously the Apple of nostr.
centralized 3rd parties are security holes blah blah
Other than keeping Primal users from experiencing ALL of nostr inc the "other stuff"?
It does seem that way. If you had to make an educated guess, what percentage of total nostr users do you believe use primal as their primary client?
I suspect that it's a majority of those onboarding, lately, unfortunately, but we manage to salvage some of them and get them to other clients.
This is one of their VC boards, FYI.
I suspect a lot of the problems Nostr has been having are a direct result of people onboarding through Primal, but it won't let up until Primal finally goes away or completely reforms.
Why?
The increasing follow-concentration is a direct result of their trending list and their preset follow-list for newbies. This was immediately obvious, from the get-go, but they have just left it like that.
Also, whilst the majority of the other devs and relay-managers immediately jumped on the ReplyGuy issue, Primal was lackadaisical. They are often AWOL, and they don't seem to use the relay, web client, or image server, themselves, on a daily basis, so they let the systems atrophy, and fill up with literal garbage, while performance crawls to a halt.
The other devs are eventually annoyed by their own stuff being broken, since they use it regularly themselves, but Primal devs are like vegan butchers. They can legit watch their repos rot for half a year and not give a damn. I've seen a lot, but that takes the cake.
Primal got way too much funding and way too much adoring press, from the get-go. They're front-and-center at the conferences, of course, talking a big game. They be like
I guess that makes me one of the salvaged users since I only used primal for a few days before I turned to amethyst.
Thank you! I just took a look at this. Wow! Primal is well-funded. I can't deny that. But... it's becoming exactly what it promised not to. I actually just un-installed it.
Lol we don't really need a Bitcoin advertisement platform. Companies like Blackrock and Fidelity are doing all that for us.