Nostr Web Client

The primary philosophy is the decentralized nature of the protocol itself, IMO. Once you post something, several hundred copies of it exist on relays worldwide, making full deletion a near impossible task.

It does seem to have some interesting side effects, though. What we’ve observed anecdotally here over the past few months is that people tend to post more responsibly given that they have no place to hide.

Ben Goggin 2y ago

It does seem like clients could be designed to facilitate a pseudo deletion though, basically just hiding the post, which I think would make a lot of sense.

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Avi Burra 2y ago

That’s right, clients can offer that, although it would only work on that particular client. The post won’t be hidden on any other client that hasn’t implemented that feature

The Daniel 🖖 2y ago

Those notes will still be archived on sites like nostr.band where anyone can find and repost them. So, unless there’s a true delete NIP added to the protocol that all relays implement, a delete button only offers false hope.