What is the consensus around back dating and signing notes?
Suppose I wrote a blog post in 2010 and now I want it to be a nostr note - how should I timestamp it? 🤔
Should relays and clients accept notes with dates before the genesis note? 🤔
Discussion
Prob just timestamp to current so we can see it .. otherwise it just goes into the skeleton closet
Thinking of if Im using a nostr blog like on utxo.one - but also any important publications we may want to import into nostr? Maybe every news article ever written could be archived as notes
I still lean toward timestamp to after Genesis.. otherwise you'll need special purpose relay.. you could also pick a single date (the Genesis date) and stamp them all to the same for easy querying..
Just my two cents.
Timestamp to after genesis hashtag reincarnation
May as well just put on the original date. When a new relay comes online, it gets tons of old events broadcast to it. There's no way of knowing if any of those events were made at the time they say they were.
I think most relays will reject the attempt to post a note if the timestamp is not within a leeway. IE more than a few seconds/minutes of the servers time. Who did the relay/project for importing tweets?
My code doesn't accept dates before 2020.
Any particular reason why not allow before?
What do you think in general about the idea of importing old content, notes as an archive?
It is fine. Put the original date in a tag. Put the event creation date as the date you actually created the nostr event.
I think that's an important question, because one of my visions for Nostr is a mass importation of articles and notes from sources like magazines and newspapers. Imagine importing the Usenet archives into a Node and letting us search through them. Or old newspapers transcribed. I'd still want them to show up in the feed by original date published, which would have to be part of the metadata.
Easy, add the date to the text.
