I have never felt the need to delete or edit anything and I’ve been on here for 2 years now. I will never understand this. nostr (in the social network variety) is not a private network and there is no expectation of privacy. All fuckups are public and thats ok. People are held accountable that way.
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Yes 🙌
In real life we can’t delete so why should we delete here 💜
I think it’s a question of what is Nostr for. And the protocol is designed for uncensorable speech. Unstoppable broadcasting in the face of totalitarian governments or social platforms.
Delete-able notes are a bug in this context.
That’s game changing for journalists, human rights advocates, and political dissidents.
Nostr is just soooo close to perfect for many other social media use cases that sometimes it’s tempting to want comfortable features.
I’ve not felt the need to edit or delete any of my posts here either, but our comfort with that is not really the point. People are choosing decentralized platforms because they desire more self-governance on the internet, and when they’re told that they can’t even delete a post here, which is a fundamental feature pretty much anywhere else, they’re going to sour on NOSTR’s flavor of decentralization.
Not to mention some people will inevitably say things that they later realize were incorrect or inappropriate or even hateful, and knowing that they can never fully disengage from their previous posts will make them less likely to use NOSTR long-term, especially if they have lots of followers.