You can’t delete notes?

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That’s wild

😉

They LIVEFOREVER 🤙

Nope - notes are forever

*kind of - there is a technical way that some relays can implement something writing over a note or forgetting it, but we aren’t there yet (someone technically smart will have to explain more)

I believe it would only be removed from those relays, if I’m understanding correctly. Where the Internet actually does forget, nostr does not.

Its not over-writing, but as I understand it, some clients can send a 2nd note saying, effectively, 'ignore the 1st note'. No guarantee that relays or client progs respect that, though.

Even if every relay you posted to “deletes” the note, you still have to trust that they actually did. At the same time, even if your relays did delete the note, someone else might have broadcast it to other relays you aren’t using so you never know where it could end up. Point is, there is no guarantee of deletion.

You are sending notes to multiple relays (servers). Technically you can ask them to delete it if they implement some NIP, but you cannot really enforce it

Just make sure you're not on nostr when you've had a little too much to drink. There'll be no way to delete everything the next morning 😂

Nostr makes better people

So many dick pics incoming until people realise this.

Let's run a sweepstake as to which politician does it first. Any hot interns on Nostr yet? One of their bosses is my guess :-)

I like that it’s not easy or possible to delete. Makes you think before posting a note and what it contains. Kind of like an inbuilt “would you say that to your mum” feature.

I kill kittens for fun.

I can see 'Delete' button in the popup menu next to my notes in Iris (https://iris.to)

Never used it though 😀

On Nostr, we learn how to use it through trial and error. You’re bound to make, many, manyyyyyy typos.