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would be more useful to have people like you saying "relays should honor delete requests" but i think there's some memes you guys follow about "you can't stop people from spreading it around" lol. it's my fucking relay subscription. whether my relay subscriptions keep my data after i unsubscribe is entirely a business decision. a blanket rule delete over 2 years inactive accounts depends on whether your business policies require scrooging over a miserable few megabytes.

my own collection of events from the last year totals to about 100mb. lol.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

actually, i think it's only about 20mb. i think one time i estimated how many words i write per day on average, something like 5-6000, at 6 characters (av. 5 plus a space per word).

i'd rather see people talking about specialist relays that just scrape and sync everything forever and charge for access to the archive. which can then be a value add for relay operators offerings.

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Vitor Pamplona 1mo ago 💬 2

Sure. That can also exist. Buy majority or relays have no business in storing things forever. Archival relays should be less than 1% of relays. Purging is good.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

"good" is meaningless without a specification of the purpose.

Vitor Pamplona 1mo ago 💬 2

... To get rid of inactive accounts

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

you mean deleting history

Vitor Pamplona 1mo ago 💬 1

Yes. Nobody wants their stuff to stick around forever. If they lose their keys and cannot login anymore, there is no way to delete.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

if they doxxed themselves that's hardly gonna be difficult to justify such a request to a relay operator.