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My profile got nuked while trying to use nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft's Highlighter.com #nostr 😒😩

This comes just a couple of weeks after my follows were nuked. I know, backup your data, but it would be nice if client apps already automatically did this, or if there was a DVM one could subscribe to do this, or a dedicated relay specifically for this. Perhaps nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s's damusdb will do this, but I use Android so I don't Damus. Yet.

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PABLOF7z 1y ago

Shit; when did this happen? There was a bug on this but I thought it was fixed 🤔

Marakesh 𓅦 1y ago

About an hour or so ago

Marakesh 𓅦 1y ago

For more context, when I first went to highlight an article it asked me to complete my profile. At first my data was in there (name, pfp, user bio) and then I clicked save and it cleared it all out. And then I saw that my user data was now empty on other Nostr clients...

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, i wish there was easier ways, i now keep a backup in the form of my own relay, which i periodically, and currently manually, pull down relevant events from other relays and push to my test relay, which i then export to jsonl - currently my whole file is 20mb and compresses as tar.xz to 2.9mb (a lotta repeats of my and other pubkeys)

i can push that whole backup back onto my relay also, i haven't gone much further in this direction because it's a little orthogonal to my task of building a relay

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

oh i will say though... better to have less follows overall... thin them out to a nice set... someone really should make a simple follow backup tool though, it's easy to do, extremely easy if you can write nostr code

Marakesh 𓅦 1y ago

Nostrgram had a built-in backup tool, I'll have to see if that client is still functional... I know the developer disappeared from Nostr after building it (which just reminded me of Satoshi Nakamoto 😄)

hodlbod 1y ago

This won't be fixed until we fix the protocol

Marakesh 𓅦 1y ago

Would that require a new NIP, or a fork or something?

hodlbod 1y ago

Probably a couple new kinds that are less conflict prone. There are things clients can do to not totally nuke follow lists though.

RandalM 1y ago

How does one do a backup on nostr?

Troy 1y ago

Without running your own relay, the only backup that I've found to work is:

https://nostrsync.live

RandalM 1y ago

Thanks! Will check it out. Have been doing some searching on it, too.

jb55 1y ago

yes the nostrdb local relay is an automated backed for all your stuff. it maintains a full version history, all compactly inside data.mdb. I just need to build the tools and UI to recover to older versions and encrypted sync to cloud.

ManiMe 1y ago

nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 asks me to confirm follow deletes when I return to the app. That may be a local cache thing, but seems like a reasonable practice for a client you “trust”.