1. Good
2. Ok. I hadn't heard that.
3. Trend lists create narratives (centralized ones). Although just because it's a centralized narrative doesn't necessarily mean it's harmful. It's just that Primal has not seem to have made any meaningful progress toward breaking down their "walled garden of data" approach to promoting their client (or platform?). Fyi, for the most part, I don't really care for any trending notes. I post what I think is interesting or funny. That is about it.
3. If more clients made their own trend lists, would it still be a centralized problem? Since you have options to choose from many different trend lists, I wouldn’t see what the issue is. People like algorithmic feeds. By far, primal burns much less data than any other client I’ve used by a significant margin. It’ll get better with time, we are early.
For people who are against pre-configured trend lists and centralization, it may be. Is that not one of the main reasons why folks are leaving primal altogether? Like me. You really shouldn't generalize on people's appreciation (or lack there of) of algorithmic dependency. I don't like using things that run on algorithms. All my friends, my orange-pilled cousins, and sister left social media probably around a decade ago for that very reason. And none of them miss social media. Point is, that there are an abundance of others who hate algorithm-based media apps.
