i discovered i could delete notes and that removes the branches on that note. i don't know if those other branches just hang in the air or if there's a Nostr forest floor for disassociated notes

not that i think this is what happened in your case, but theoretically if you were typing on a note farther on the branch, it's like you fell right off the tree.

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yeah, the nostr forest floor is just the lack of any kind of garbage collection for stuff that is now orphaned like that... pruning orphaned branches would make sense, though someone could quote post a node off the orphaned branch which would essentialy graft it to an OP... the orphaned posts will still also be visible on the users post history

hard to say what kinds of GC strategies would make sense for nostr's free-standing event structure