1. I don't believe they should have an algo to begin with
2. I've seen numerous random npubs in my feed complain about being censored by them
3. How do you know it wasn't intentional?
Discussion
1. Then don’t use it.
2. I’ve seen a random npub complain about amethyst censoring him but it turned out to be false.
3. How do you know it was intentional?
1. I don't. Sounds like you're still stuck in Twatterland.
2. What made it false?
3. It seems like it was since the Primal teams control trend lists.
Controlling a trend list means you control the narrative. Same thing centralized socials do. Same reason why everyone hates them now more than ever.
Trend lists don’t control the narrative. They’re optional lol
Lol yes, they are optional. But when one chooses a trend list... that creates a narrative😮💨.
And? I find it very valuable. Some days I don’t have time to scroll through my feed of nearly 500 users. So I check what is trending and it gives me a good idea on what happened today. Posts that have a lot engagement and zaps are not a perfect signal of what is important but it’s a decent one.
Ok. That's fine if you like it. As someone who has worked with VCs before, I'm always going to remain skeptical of their long-term intentions. Primal is no differen, imo.
That’s fair. I think all nostr clients will eventually have to act like businesses and find ways to monetize content. Devs can’t keep building off open sats donations forever. A lot of people will get very upset with the clients they’ve used for years. The beauty of nostr is that you can just switch to a different client. If amethyst starts censoring certain content about Trump and using algorithmic feeds, you’ll always have the option to go to a different client.
1. Deleted my twatter last year
2. Someone was literally talking to him through amethyst lmao
3. Seeming like it was doesn’t mean it actually was. Primal team made their own trend list. If you want a different trend list tell the devs of the app you use.
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.