TIL somehow Primal is worse than Mastodon. How do you people live?
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"This is unhealthy food."
"This is unhealthy food, but it is vegan, so you can feel great about eating even more chemicals!"
"This is social turd media."
"This is social turd media but we added a Nostr Bitcoin label on it even though it's the same"
I like #philosophy stuff which gets populated a lot by mastodon I guess, and I like it better than constant anti-semitism and flat earth arguments I see on Primal. Even if those arguments are true it's just a downer.
I'm not trying to make a comment about "you people" I just want an entertaining feed that skews towards positive stuff. It might not be the cutting edge carnivore content you prefer, but it's not all that bad. But like I said I haven't been seeing the furry porn that you see there so it's all subjective 🤷♀️
If Primal has a "for you" feed, it has some sort of logic that prioritizes content or Primal users. And anyone that has an opinion about it beyond "meh" is generally agreeing with what you are saying.
Primal has a layer that sits between actual nostr and its users that makes decisions on their behalf. It's like the old AOL application that boiled down the internet to your email, chat, and highly curated web content. And just like your grandma would say "AOL" instead of the "internet", Primal is Venture-capitalist-engineered to be the "brand" of "nostr". You're getting a service that decides what you see and (more importantly) what you don't.
Have you tried using a nostr client instead, like Amethyst?
Yes exactly 💯
When I first came on board it was through Primal, and I quickly realized I like Amethyst much better, it's my daily driver now.
I also learned that the content I see on my feed is largely dependent on my relays. My error was in thinking the momoster mastodon bridge was a relay.
I'm trying to have a wide range of relays so I can get a wide range of good quality content. It's hard because I'm an idiot more often than not 😅
I've been on Nostr 11 months now and only just realized Mastodon was a separate thing like two days ago. I thought the fediverse and all decentralized social medias were linked in some ways, like through different relays. So I was kind of equating fediverse = mastodon = Nostr which I now realize was dumb, and I remain committed to Nostr because I really like the zap feature ⚡⚡⚡