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Deleting isn't really fully possible I think, notes are cached in many relays and clients and it wouldn't be possible to notify all of them to instantly delete it and actually have a 100% delete success. I think the best option we have is to add in client warnings about content you might not want to post like Nsecs or Bitcoin keys, I too have this worry too, I always go over notes many times which contain images or copied test to make sure I don't accidentally post something sensitive. You could add an option to enable a double confirmation or something to post, like it shows a preview of the note and then you have to confirm again, this wouldn't help a lot but might a little.
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rabble 1y ago

But like theoretically delete doesn’t guarantee that it’ll work but in reality in practice it works great.

Also centralized services don’t delete at all, they just hide content. So Nostr delete is actually better.

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Uno 1y ago

Yeah, the only negative difference is with Nostr is that it's not just one client or relay that has to respond for it to be deleted, it's all of them all together.

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rabble 1y ago

How about you try it and then we can talk about whether or not it works.

https://nostr-delete.vercel.app

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Lucky Kite 1y ago

Can users just select relays that offer deletes and block relays that don't. Or a client that checks all relays have the delete function before posting? Is this possible?

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calle 1y ago

That's fine with me. It already makes it much safer to have the option to hide it from the world at large, even if the service never deleted it.