I use primal. I’m on iOS. I value UX/UI. What am I missing. What are the bounds of my echo chamber? I have heard this before but don’t understand what it means to me as a user. If I scroll Damus and scroll primal. I see the same stuff. Help me actually understand this meme horse I’m riding around in?
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With Primal, it reads from their centralized caching server. It can alter the content it shows you, not show you certain content, etc and you wouldn’t know
They are known to shadowban people from trending
It is a walled garden, with the doors open, for now.
I'm not sure it is on purpose, but none of nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 news bots show on primal currently.
I can't imagine why they would be censored on purpose, rather likely a glitch in caching that is removing them thinking they are spam.
Regardless, if I’m following them I should see them, right? My followed profile’s posts should be hunted down at wherever the profile’s posts are said to be broadcast to by the profile’s designated relay.
Are you saying
- Primal app search results are among what’s cached on Primal relays only?
- I can only view notes that are cached on Primal relays, even if primal doesn’t cache notes from the people I follow?
Yes, if you follow, you should see them. This is not currently the case with primal. Likely a caching server issue.
I think search results use their cache as well, but not 100% sure.
Sounds worse than I originally thought. I tried Primal once, and got pissed off when they asked for name and address. WTF.