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The shadow banning is only on the Trending feed, so just donโ€™t use it.

Spam is a separate issue since Primal uses a centralized cache. I presume they need to filter spam on ingest to keep their cache fast and scalable so there is not way to turn that part off. Youโ€™d need to use a different client without a centralized cache or run your own caching service.
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But why ban it in the first place? If it is trending, let it be, why fuck with it?

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Mazin 2y ago

Theres a few reasons! You can read some of the posts from nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr explaining their reasoning.

Main ones were:

1. Adult accounts (they donโ€™t want those in the trending feed, understandable whether you agree or not)

2. Semisol was creating โ€œfakeโ€ trending events by creating fake reactions/replies/zaps/etc so they blocked his npub.

Again, if youโ€™re trying to build a functional โ€œtrending notesโ€ view, these are reasonable steps to take not โ€œcensorshipโ€.

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๐–‹๐–Ž๐–†๐–™๐–‰๐–Š๐–“๐–Ž๐–Š๐–— (ยฏ`โ—•โ€ฟโ—•ยดยฏ) 2y ago

If there are adult contents you donโ€™t want to see, mute it and refresh the list, why ban it altogether? What if I am a pervert and I want to see it? Let the user decide. Period.

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nobody 2y ago

It sounds like this โ€œtrending notes viewโ€ stuff is more a pain in the ass than something really useful. I wonder why Primal devs decided to implement it, especially knowing anyone could easily trick the algorithm.