Replying to Avatar BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish

This is easy to understand if you understand relays. Quick primer:

You connect with other ppl on nostr via relays. When I post a note, that note is sent to all the relays I'm connected to. Those relays then sends that note to all the other ppl also connected to those relays.

Ppl can further boost or broadcast my note which then sends it to all the relays they are connected to, sending the note far and wide.

If a relay does not honor the delete request, that note will remain and continue to propagate thru the network.

Similarly if the note gets sent to a relay I'm not connected to, the delete request won't reach those other relays and remain alive on the network. I wouldn't be able to see it since I'm not connected to the relays serving those notes, but I wouldnt see it but others might. That is, until that note makes it's way back around to one of the relays I am connected to.

Therefore delete is possible but not guaranteed.

Hope that helps?

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sandwich 1y ago

Relays generally dont rebroadcast, there are some blastr relays that send every note to a list of the top relays. But network synchronization isnt presently in the protocol. Relays were intentionally designed to be dumb for resiliency.

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 1y ago

I meant rebroadcast as in if a user rebroadcast a particular note (there's a button for it on amythest).

A blastr relay is slightly different as that connects relay to relay. You are right that typically relay connect peer1>relay1>peer2.

In my example, when I say broadcast, I mean if peer2 broadcasts my note to relay2 which I'm not connected to.