Greg on Nostr: I hope this is no too much. TLDR is try Primal. I hear people talk about Amethyst on ...

I hope this is no too much. TLDR is try Primal.

I hear people talk about Amethyst on Android, and I know Primal is on Android, but I'm on iOS right now where I use Damus and Primal. On the desktop, I mostly use Primal, but I also use Coracle, Snort, and I just started with Iris. The advantage of Primal is that it uses an aggregation server that draws from all relays that it knows about. There are some people that think that violates the decentralization of Nostr, but Primal has open-sourced their code and they encourage others to set up aggregation servers. They believe in decentralization, but they also believe aggregation improves user experience.

The result is that I see more posts and better statistic on Primal, but their clients are less mature at this point. They are well funded and should quickly get better.

One other thing to be aware of is care of your private key. Pasting it into a web app is considered less secure than a well know, open-source client like Amathyst or Primal. On web apps, I use the Alby browser extension, which has a Bitcoin Lightning wallet and will manage your Nostr keys. It seems to be trusted by the people I follow.