I think when we spend the bulk of our time online here we tend to miss the big picture. We are a network of around 10,000 active users, on a GOOD day. The protocol isn’t perfect. The clients aren’t perfect. The overall UX is still messy and confusing. We’ve barely gotten started, we’re not even close to being ready for the world to show up. We have to give people room to try things, get them wrong, and try something else without being mean to each other in the process. That goes against everything we embody.
Thanks for a reasonable and nuanced take as always Derek. đź«‚đź’ś
To answer your question, Primal users can choose whether they want to see NSFW content in their feeds and/or in the trending side bar. The default is that NSFW content shows in the feeds, but not in the trending side bar. This is an easy setting for users to flip.
We are working on a more sophisticated solution where NSFW content will be categorized on a per-note bases (not per-user basis). nostr:npub12z8jsett3k6rv9fa2guau5p540qr2xuvjzkr8e432mglafjt99sqkw9zmx is a perfect example of an account that posts lots of interesting content with a few occasional NSFW notes. Our new system would make it possible for her regular content to trend by default.
A lot of criticism we get can be summarized as "why isn't Primal perfect today?!". We are building and improving things every day. Everything we've done has always been transparent. Happy to engage in good faith, but Semi obviously hasn't been willing to do that. Faking this advisory to generate outrage is obviously over the top. Excusing his behaviour looks a bit weird to me tbh.