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 onboard your friends to nostr using notprimal. primal normally adds almost 200 nostr elite to your follow list when you sign up. i just nuked that functionality for notprimal. when you sign up with notprimal, you're presented a list of suggested users to follow, but it's opt in. by default, you only follow yourself. 🫡 

https://notprimal.lol 
 That’s a cringe default feature tbh. Nice changes 🤙 
 I’ve always hated it even when just making test accounts 😂 
 Primal has trending feeds so I have no idea why they do this. New users still get a feed even without following anyone. 
 This is the way. 
nostr:nevent1qqswwyscvcr8ueh804rek8dythfx62ut2y06sthk6p6qk8vgx8tay0spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygrqf6twpxvndggy3qu43vzqk3m89c8sfryc43un7dllunrjqfu7kgpsgqqqqqqsdylc0t 
 Great. But if I can't log in with Amber then it's not relevant. 
 Correct 
 I’m adding that next 🤙 
 Maybe later tonight after I go for a long walk and make dinner 
 Something like this should help with discovery after you follow a couple of people you know:
nostr:note1y0mvk4ldjd3exxw5w0gwvy468xta7fm5l7uzmrav3d33rh2uupkqefq8y9 
 Primal has trending feeds so it’s great for  discovering new content for noobs

https://notprimal.lol/explore 
 You tend to see the same people trending on there all the time.

This feature would be more beneficial to non bitcoin/nostr-maxis that want to expand their social graph within their community (Siamstr, Art, Photography, etc.) 
 I browse the 4h trending feed all the time and I always find new people to follow 
 Lol nice. Primates > primelites lol.

I think primal will probably rethink this by the sounds of it. Seems quite unpopular. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ 
 Would be nice if Not Primal would just keep being better than Primal all around and let Primal try to catch up in whatever ways they can 
 I don’t plan to work on it much. They’re working on Primal 2.0. I just deployed this to hold us over until they launch that. 
 Oh, in that case it will be nice if Primal 2.0 is better than current Primal lol 
 I have a feeling it’s going to be a lot better 
 This is what happened with Onyx, a fork of amethyst  
 I think we’re finding out how “free speech” was co-opted from the very beginning with the legacy social media platforms 
 How will I know what the Nostrati wants me to think??? 
 Browse trending 24 hr feed sir 
 Haha they are all that pops up, you right. I been using notprimal.lol since the day you forked it. It’s much faster and allows me to post media. 
 I’m using Damus, Primal, Notprimal, Nostur, Nostrudel, Cornychat, and 0xChat, and cornychat, and hives, and Coracle and sometimes but not much Nests 
 Idk what else to try right now 
 This is also a quick way to spin up alt accounts 🚀 
 Really? Maybe I'm forgetting smt I did but using primal here and didn't remember about this 200 guys on my following list.  
 Not sure when they added it. Go load up primal in incognito mode and try it. 
 I spin up alt accounts all the time. Sometimes just to test stuff. That’s how I knew it did that. 
 I also tested it, recently, and had the same experience. 
 How long till primal steals your changes 
 I would have just made PRs, but they haven’t been merging PRs or communicating with anyone trying to contribute on the GitHub repo for over 5 months. I think they’re rebuilding the whole site or at least doing a major rewrite of it. 
 Good 🫡