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Not crazy, entitled. It's similar to people obsessed with nostr deletion: the core of the protocol is literally that you can verify someone said something, and they insist that they be able to take it back. What does that even mean? Are we required to hack into every location that has the message, and blank it out? If you've been offline for a year and still have the deleted message in your client cache, are you breaking the law? Once you have provably said something, you can't stop people from knowing that you said it. Sure, nice clients and relays can respect your deletion request, but are those really the ones you're worried about? At some point there will be relays that retain normal messages for 30 days, but deleted ones forever... because that's easy. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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jb55 1y ago

This has always been my point about deletion, which is why i’m glad we renamed it to “deletion request”

At the protocol level

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ynniv 1y ago

And it's no different with popular centralized services. The only real difference is that nostr is honest.

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ynniv 1y ago

I might go a step further and call them "retractions"

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ImaginaryEvent 1y ago

I like that. This is perfect naming.

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Monkey Pox Denier 1y ago

Should be "edit request".

Deleting is just a soecial case of edit

(think rwx style)

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