I have tested a half dozen of them and they are all bad. Look nice on the surface so someone at least did some good wire frames. But they stopped there. I can't even get a simple TEXT post formatted to display correctly across web and mobile on Primal, YAKIHONNE, or Amethyst. That is unacceptable for any type of technology that is aiming to disrupt traditional social media.
Discussion
Sounds like you know something about app development. Maybe you should contribute to one of the clients you find most promising.
I do but I am not a developer or programmer by trade. I am a creative writer who has worked on QC teams and alongside developers in the past. I have communicated my viewpoint to Primal already but there are so many strange and delusional SILOS on Nostr that it's hard to know HOW to even communicate to all the various client technical teams with any constructive feedback. Decentralization is a great idea in theory, but COLLABORATION & COOPERATION are ALSO KEY. They are in fact REQUIRED in order to actually achieving anything of lasting value.
💯 I’m not a dev either. My best advice is to stick around and keep using it and build connections and let people get to know you. I’ve found that some devs are more open to input/criticism than others, and some will engage in those discussions here while others want to have them on GitHub. For what it’s worth I’ve found the Primal team very open to feedback. I’ve been using nostr going on 2 years now. Many of the clients are light years ahead of where they were back then, and many have only been built within the last year. Definitely room for improvement though. For artists in particular, as this thread started, look beyond the social media clients. If you haven’t checked out Wavlake, Tunestr, and Fountain, for instance, they are more specifically built for musicians and podcasters, and are excellent apps. Primal is probably the most well rounded of the social media clients. The most recent 2.0 update brought a lot of features, fixed a lot of issues, but does still have some issues. Getting there, though.