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Vitor Pamplona's avatar Vitor Pamplona
Periodic reminder that your relays see absolutely EVERYTHING you do on Nostr. Regardless of which Client you use. They literally see the app downloading zaps, replies, and reactions when you scroll your posts in real time. So... MAKE SURE TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE and that you TRUST THEM with that information. Nostr is just like a browser. The server has to know what you want to see to send it to you, and that gives them the power to track you and see what you are asking for. There is no way around it. I can't stress this enough.
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You misunstood the context of the OP. Relays can indeed see everything you do and some do collect certain info. But what primal is doing is collecting users search info which they can sell to their VC masters and possibly create a personalized list of search and trend suggestions, which is virtually identical to what platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube do.
Yes. You're exactly correct. We are rightly criticizing a stellar oversight or an outright lie. You have can't bother criticizing projects that are both better built and more functional by people who are above moral reproach even if we are prickly. Step off your soap box until the current issue is addressed. Not doing that only gives the ones criticizing you more fuel. Please continue if you feel you must. I'm exceptionally happy for this to continue. πŸ˜πŸ˜Žβ€οΈβ€πŸ”₯🀭
You really love tossing around the word boring. What's funny is that you don't realize how boring you and your precious Primal is. And I've experienced more than enough excitement in my 45 years of being alive. When my kids grow up, I'll get back to being fun. Plenty of time for that. So... are you going to answer all of our questions or not? Because you're clearly trying to evade.
I did explain it in DMs but here you go: - All interactions from the last n hours are taken by β€œtrusted” users (top 50k by followed, not exactly but mostly similar) - The most interacted ones are added up - Except for the GM feeds, any that contains β€œgm” (including as part of another word or link) is removed - Public keys blocked from trending are removed - The result is returned
We need a NIP for clients to voluntarily disclose their data handling … and a network of users and devs that incentivizes them to use it. Primal is just the beginning. There will be more … lots more. Success for Nostr depends on real world businesses integrating with the protocol. WE ALL KNOW that end user sovereignty is good for business (don’t we?) AND YET the dominant paradigm of black box apps will not go away without some hand holding. We SHOULD be building a protocol and libraries that make it easy for businesses to OFF-LOAD more and more of their data to Nostr … but we SHOULD NOT chastise business for simply having black boxes and trying to make money. Black boxes are the old business model. Freedom tech is the new… but transitions are complicated.
Yep, for sure. A few things are certain though, imo. Primal devs are trying to make it appear as if other non-primal devs are bullying them (cowardlyπŸ™„), they use deceptive tactics to create a walled garden of misinformation across a decentralized freedom protocol in order to create the false narrative that primal and it's relays are the most used nostr client, they don't care for user privacy (and lie about it), they collect data (which they also lie about), and they're an increasingly narcissistic bunch due to egregious amounts of VC funding. In short, they believe that their dicks are the biggestπŸ™„.
As a @primal user I want to know every element that compromises privacy and user control of their data (storage, tracking, and persistence) on both the application and the relay. And I’d like to see it in a public list or maybe a mirrored repo with specific notes against the offending code in a constructive way that makes us all smarter. Best in a place where discussion can happen, so that we as users can guide development where appropriate and possible. This kind of dialogue is important to have early and often. Code debt could be building up on undesired functionality, further cementing it. Let’s air some laundry and understand the what and why of it.