Check the #meshtastic hashtag

Primal had a caching server in the middle that fetches from relays, then serves notes & notifications to you from there. You don't actually read anything from relays in Primal, though you do still write to them. It reduces bandwidth & creates consistency within their environment, but it can miss some events or take extra time to aggregate. Alternatively, you might notice things missing in Nostria, on occassion, if it has difficulty connecting to either your relays or the relays of your contacts. This latter situation can affect any client. Many, like Nostria, use a list of fallback relays to try to reduce the effects of poor connectivity. Primal's situation is unique to Primal.

You'll notice this across all clients, to some extent. Clients use different methods to fetch your mentions from many relays. There is also some variation in where/how the sender's client sends these events.

https://spatianostra.com/anyone-can-operate-a-nostr-relay/ https://spatianostra.com/getting-started-with-pyramid/

https://makimono.lumilumi.app is basic but it works very well.

cellar.nostr.wine is an easy & reliable option

The only way I have found is to delete the application and create a new string

Anything free and reliable is heavily used. Perhaps one of the larger WoT relays, such as nostrelites.org ,would be suitable.

follows.nostr.com ... sorry about that

You can usually prevent this by not following/unfollowing anyone from whichever client you were using when it happened. You might be able to back up and restore: follow.nostr.com metadata.nostr.com following.space Or add wss://hist.nostr.land to your write relays for future recovery.