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Totally agree. #Nostr Never need to delete posts, this is the soul of Nostr. Only those who need to create gods need the delete function, because deletion can create a perfect god. Nostr is us in real life. We may say the wrong thing in a conversation, get angry in an argument, and express passionate love for beautiful things. Sometimes it will make you embarrassed, but all this is ordinary and real us. Keep nostr weird. In Nostr you can discuss anything, but you need to be sincere with your private key and posts. The posts here cannot be deleted. This is not any traditional social platform. You can't cover up your evil deeds by deleting or modifying posts. So your private key represents yourself. Undeletable is the foundation of Nostr's trust network.
They try to copy-paste what “works” from platforms but give up here quick
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SoapMiner 1 year ago
It's funny to me. How are you going to what is, perhaps, the largest brain trust in the world, expecting them to fall for mediocre bullshit. Thay need to step up their game. 🤣
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R 1 year ago
I like the idea of people I’ve muted having a conversation in the replies to my note and I don’t even know about it😂
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nicodemus 1 year ago
I get that. And one part of me likes it. The other part thinks, “no, my posts are my data. I should be able to revoke access to my data at will.” This gets into whether notes are a matter of “public record” or freely shared data. If it’s on the internet, it can be repeated, copied, screenshotted - a million ways to reproduce. But to prove whether or not you wrote something - should that belong to you or everyone? It feels very much like using nostr is then submitting to the whims of the crowd and whatever groupthink du jour is occurring. This is a terrifying thought, and I’m not a scammer. This creates a security risk and incentivizes wiser people to not contribute on nostr - as they lose control - without extreme measures of anonymity being taken. Nakmoto levels. Is this the way we want to create community? With fear? There is the idea of merit - which again, a part of me loves. But the finality of the access to a note takes it to an extreme. I’m pretty conflicted.
that is just a signaling mechanism to relays and clients primal for instance does not show notes that have "deletion requests" there is no way to stop someone from saving a cryptographically verifiable copy of nostr posts
Agreed, nothing stops a deletion request being ignored just like nothing stops a screenshot on X. Except, as you say, notes are cryptography verifiable to a pubkey forever.
I know what you’re saying. I see nostr as like a real life conversation, online. In a real life conversation you never get to take it back. You can clarify, augment, apologise.. but you can’t delete what you say. Obviously nostr is potentially one to many so quite a different dynamic.
To be fair the not being able to delete posts is kinda annoying (accidentally retweeted someone 6 times trying to undo)