Tauri on Nostr: The fact that I see your post on Primal as well as on Damus—even though it directly ...

The fact that I see your post on Primal as well as on Damus—even though it directly accuses them of censorship—means it’s not censorship. It’s high time people start making a distinction between censorship and filtering.

One is designed to silence you or prevent you from reaching your peers; the other exists to improve user experience or conserve resources. One is purely content-based; the other is driven by rate limits. The outcome might be the same (not seeing certain posts or interactions), but the purpose is completely different.

A given user might value experience over reach, and vice versa. I might not want to see everything you have to say, and you might feel the same about me.

I’ll grant you this, though: Primal could choose to abuse its capabilities. But other clients won’t—and that’s the whole point. I use four Nostr clients, and what I post with my private key shows up across all of them. Even if Primal went full censorship, I could switch to another client and bypass it entirely without losing any content.

All this constant dunking on Primal just shows that it has superior UX—and that people don’t really understand how censorship actually works.