you can delete stuff off your relay whenever you like guy.
you haven't given even a small justification for why nostr should be "forced" to have amnesia.
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would be more useful to have people like you saying "relays should honor delete requests" but i think there's some memes you guys follow about "you can't stop people from spreading it around" lol. it's my fucking relay subscription. whether my relay subscriptions keep my data after i unsubscribe is entirely a business decision. a blanket rule delete over 2 years inactive accounts depends on whether your business policies require scrooging over a miserable few megabytes.
my own collection of events from the last year totals to about 100mb. lol.
actually, i think it's only about 20mb. i think one time i estimated how many words i write per day on average, something like 5-6000, at 6 characters (av. 5 plus a space per word).
i'd rather see people talking about specialist relays that just scrape and sync everything forever and charge for access to the archive. which can then be a value add for relay operators offerings.
Sure. That can also exist. Buy majority or relays have no business in storing things forever. Archival relays should be less than 1% of relays. Purging is good.
"good" is meaningless without a specification of the purpose.
... To get rid of inactive accounts