EXPLANATION FOR ABOVE POST: During mid 2025 I was passing thru yet another overly-challenging, and frustrating period.
Since early 2018, I've lived through a strung-out succession of unpredictably rough periods, which kept arriving in waves before I'd even had time to fully fix and then get over the effort of fixing "the previous bad patch".
Sure, life was never meant to be easy (and I know many others have been obliged to live thru something worse; esp. since 2022) but I've never experienced anything like it during several previous decades. To solve the mystery of this extended epoch, perhaps I should consult an Astrologer?? 😇
One evening, I was getting frustrated over my NOSTR Follower's Count going up a few notches, before collapsing down by 75 percent or so for no apparent reason. So the negative expressions contained in that post was just me blowing-off with muted anger mixed with some conspiratorial speculation.
The thing is, at the time I typed out some of my negative feelings, I did not know that stuff posted in NOSTR is inherently "kind-of" permanent. There's no pre-positioned "delete" option. Not even an edit button ... once a poster has committed his/her post to the linked NOSTR Relays. Clearly, I regret not studying NOSTR's small print more closely.
I have made an actual attempt to delete the offending post, but I soon hit a road-block linked to a missing NIP-09. And I simply couldn't move past it.
On the topic of NIP-09, I am currently in correspondence with the YakiHonne Team. They have always been very helpful, but this problem might be outside of their scope. But even with their assistance and intervention, the chances of getting the above post deleted (currently 6 months old, at time of this writing) from at least 3 Relays, will likely remain low.
I've certainly embarrassed myself. But we all make mistakes. Fortunately, this mistake was made online, and not in the middle of busy traffic while riding my bicycle!
Cheers! 🙏