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Example,

You fat finger a note.

By accident doxx your license plate or any other identifiers.

You have been completely doxxed, and want to start fresh without your previous data lying around.

You're a dissident posting about a regime & want your notes to expire in effect getting the message out but blackholing the ability to trace a note back to IP addressing.

Prob many more reasons to give users full control of their data.
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kepford 1y ago

I tend to agree. I haven't thought through it enough but here's another aspect.

Relays can already delete/block/censor any npub they want. Allowing the key holder to delete their own notes doesn't seem to provide much of any benefit on the censorship resistance side.

The censorship resistance of Nostr is more about there being many relays coupled with the signing of messages allowing for more privacy than having a centralized ID system.

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ShiShi21m 1y ago

Yes I agree, but there's an incentive for relays to allow people to delete their content.

Reduces storage.

In general relays prob be dumping old content that isn't text.

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kepford 1y ago

Nothing stops relays from deleting whatever. Therefore why shouldn't the protocol support delete by npubs.