How long before someone creates a nostr Wayback Machine that scrapes events where deletion was requested and backs them up?
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To be fair, that’s kind of the default. It’s extra work to process and remove deleted events. The code doesn’t write itself.
However, it was never intended as being any guarantee.. more like a please forget, and stop including in future requests.
I’d imagine it’s not very interesting content anyway - most client apps don’t even have a UI for it.
And major issue is technically any deletion event would need to live forever to even check against. Meaning both a spam vector and a growing database cost.
Makes sense. I'd imagine the stuff that is important to delete (illegal or pornographic content) will be handled outside the protocol through manual deletion by relay operators.
Well, alternatively I’m thinking in the next 6 months relays will be forced to start dropping older or less ‘valuable’ events.
Large database are not fun. And unless someone is paying you for storage, I’d expect the content to have an expiry anyway.