Yeah but you can increase the possibility of a Good Enough deletion by only posting to relays which accept this. Whilst also bearing in mind it is a best attempt and leaky. But also probably quite effective if you're a small poster not on any hate radars lol.
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it's not only impossible on nostr, it's impossible on the internet, but slightly more impossible on nostr, because of the background goings on with subscriptions on relays
Yeah I think everyone kind of knows this. 'The internet is forever' or whatever the phrase is. But I'm just saying one measure is to not make it so easy. There's a lot of spiteful people with bad intentions who also don't have the tech skills, but would be very happy with how easy trawling through posts for potential ammo, can be on nostr.
I obviously not really know what I'm talking about tho. Lol.
indeed, that's my point, and why i say "more impossible" because it is definitely in practice easier to catch events on nostr
but the situation is no different on farcaster and bluesky and mastodon also, if you are running infrastructure, you see it... hell, bluesky DMs aren't even encrypted, only gated by authentication and then it's "trust me bro" the federation node operator isn't snarfing the data
so, yeah, not a problem only for nostr but for decentralised and semi-decentralised social media in total
and even centralised social media has screenshots, even if they don't expose APIs or RSS feeds
fact of life, get over it, welcome to the internet, 50 years later, it's finally dawning on the population that it means a real permanent record