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Delete is and has always been a core part of the nostr protocol. Essentially Nostr delete is just like on centralized platforms, not all copies of content are deleted when you request servers delete something.

I fundamentally don’t understand why nostr app developers keep insisting on disabling delete and pretending that nostr doesn’t support it. Delete works in nostr and it is a large part of why we switched from secure scuttlebutt to nostr. Delete can’t work in scuttlebutt, but does work in nostr.

Users should be informed that there is no way to force relays to honor your delete requests. And i think dishonest relays should be something we can rate and track in nostr clients. But to say we don’t have delete or edit in nostr is both incorrect and undermining the adoption of the protocol.

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Josua Schmid 2y ago

I like your argument about how the situation is anyways similar to current centralized platforms. Someone may have screenshot your tweet before deletion.

On the other hand I’d like digital content to be storable forever canonically, e.g. by having a way-back relay which is allowed to store things forever.

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