Nostr Web Client

My guess is that if the client has a feature to specify a particular relay to post to, rather than posting to your outbox relays like normal, it probably adds that tag, assuming that you ONLY want the note to exist on that relay. Generally a safe assumption, except in this case.

arfonzo 0mo ago

I think that's definitely what happened! I was explicitly setting to one relay (to test my haven deploy)... just tested nosotros and doesn't seem like it adds the protected tag, so perhaps it was jumble or something else.

It's odd, because for testing I've often only set one relay, then manually broadcast it to other relays after publishing, and I've never run into this.

I'll try to isolate which client it might have been, serves me right for doing stuff at 4AM! 🤣

Thanks for the info as always!

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Dikaios1517 0mo ago

The protected tag is a relatively new feature that clients may have slowly been adding. I think it was originally thought up for the sake of lockbox and zapbox relays, so that there could be kind 1 and other standard note types that could be published to a specific relay that only a select group could read from. This would be more private than publishing to public relays that anyone can read from, but less private than encrypting the content.

arfonzo 0mo ago

I can see a use case for this, but I'm not a fan of implicitly protecting the event when sending to one relay specifically, I'd much prefer an EXPLICIT parameter to pass from client.

But that explains exactly why I had this behaviour!

Dikaios1517 0mo ago

100% agree. Users should have some indication that the event will be protected, and ideally a way to select whether or not they want the event to be protected when they write to a single relay.

Cesar Dias 0mo ago

There's an indicator if you are trying to post inside a relay feed (not your home feed), but I will allow you to disable it, this indeed needs to be more flexible, the reason I did was because some people wanted.

arfonzo 0mo ago

Oh awesome! I've not even seen that myself yet. So I'm pretty sure it's a humble + haven thing then!

I think that'd be great to notify the user as you're doing, and allow them to disable it.