weev on Nostr: All of that 14GB is basically media cache. I *do not care* that Primal resizes media ...

All of that 14GB is basically media cache. I *do not care* that Primal resizes media ahead of time to save you on your cellphone bill. This does not affect Nostr’s decentralization at all, because images and videos on Nostr are not distributed in a decentralized fashion. They’re just links to normal, centralized, http servers. What is decentralized is the note content and metadata.

Primal can continue reducing media downloads. I support this! It’s an excellent feature they provide. But they need to at least query real Nostr relays periodically and make any content that is not appearing via their caching servers available. That’s the bare minimum. Otherwise they can offer people a choice with informed consent. When you launch Primal for the first time you can get a choice between “decentralized and censorship-resistant” or “a centralized caching and algorithmic feed that we curate to save cellphone bandwidth.” So people then know and understand the difference, and are choosing the latter.