What is Nostr?
/ Colby Serpađź’ˇ
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2024-12-30 01:59:48

Colby Serpađź’ˇ on Nostr: Hmm jb55 said the primal server was proprietary but after looking further I found it ...

Hmm jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) said the primal server was proprietary but after looking further I found it here: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-server

I don’t see anyone else running one, but technically relay operators could run this alongside their relay to service Primal users.

Although, it feels like a fork of nostr. Users can’t connect to normal nostr relays — therefore it isn’t backwards-compatible. The way we built Nestr was:

1) You can pull notes from normal relays
2) You can only pull the Merkle trees and blossom blobs from blossom servers and HORNET Storage servers

We preserved backwards-compatibility. Primal compromised on backwards-compatibility.

And there’s literally no documentation on how to change which relays the cache pulls from. 🤦‍♂️ It wasn’t built with other people easily running it in mind.
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