Your notes are supposedly forever on Nostr. What is the compelling reason why you shouldn't be able to delete forever?

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It’s like real life

Yet it's not

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But you cannot delete real life, once you say something you can’t take it back, when you trip over you can’t delete that, or when you have an accident..no deletes in real time.

I guess we have enough to deal with IRL already but i see your point.

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Imma agree with Marie, but also… deletes R good UX.

It’s not that you shouldn’t be able to, it’s just that there’s no way to force every relay to respect deletes

So it's rather technical.

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It’s rather optional. Some relays just won’t ever go along with a delete request. You can’t really know which ones do this unless you choose very carefully.

Then somehow we are not entirely free

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Even if you do, people might still broadcast your notes to other relays

Exactly. I could store your notes in my Umbrel relay and you’re shit out of luck.

It is like life, if you have said something bad to me in person you are never gonna undo it (you can apologize after though and I can accept it). Life is not so free neither.

Again Nostr is not real life but i see your point

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No it is just not more free.