Nostr Web Client

Hot take. 🌶️

Some of you aren’t ready to hear this, but Nostr in its current state doesn’t have a hope of scaling to millions of users until content can be removed as easily as it can be posted.

This means:

– All clients offer a delete option that permanently hides a note that a user requested to delete, even from other clients

– All note types are editable to allow users to fix tags and typos

– Users can un-like and un-repost content if they change their mind

– Account deletion allows for all content posted by a user to be purged

Maybe some or all these things are possible, maybe not.

Don’t shoot the messenger.

omniacollective 7mo ago 💬 2

Not sure if you understand how nostr work. (Don shoot us for this)

– All clients offer a delete option that permanently hides a note that a user requested to delete, even from other clients

> nostr, unlike other, is decentralized. notes are not store on clients but on relays. Usually the relays you connect your client to. Some are free, some charge a fee. The free one are under no obbligation to delete notes at people's will.

To solve this problem you can run your own relay and make it reachable by the network. In that way you manage your data.

– All note types are editable to allow users to fix tags and typos

– Users can un-like and un-repost content if they change their mind

> that depends on the client

– Account deletion allows for all content posted by a user to be purged

> similar to the first point

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omniacollective 7mo ago 💬 2

Also, deleting a message on X and others does not mean it is deleted. It's just not dispayed. They keep it on their server.

The Daniel 🖖 7mo ago

I know this, and everyone should, but it’s still a barrier to adoption.

Garbage nsec 7mo ago

The most common reaction to a button that says "request delete" is "what the hell do you mean 'request'?!" Everything else is just a few nerds reasoning it out.

If Nostr in an all public form has no ambition to scale to 1m users and beyond then that's all fine. If it does then that's a huge problem.

It all comes down to ambition to scale. What's the ambition? What's the goal? What's the desired number?

The Daniel 🖖 7mo ago

I’ve used Nostr for two and a half years, and I am very aware of how things work.

I’m simply pointing out something I see as a blocker for a majority of users.

Hardly anyone is going to run their own relay, they’ll just go somewhere else.