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gernot · 1w
I like the idea of gradually onboarding new users. However, from my experience, people are opposing the fact that they cannot delete content or take back likes (not zaps - this seems more clear). They...
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You can definitely delete stuff. It doesn't work really when clients decide to broadcast your content to dozens of hardcoded relays, but in a setting where you're publishing only to one or a few handpicked relays as in the scenarios I described deletion would work perfectly.

The "you can't delete" stuff is more a legacy thing from 3 years ago when everybody was committing all kinds of sins when making clients. We're not perfect yet, but much better.

Many clients already have a button to delete, others should implement that as soon as possible.
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gernot · 1w
I understand, that I can ask relays to delete my hash. Yet it is not my decision, is it? Am I off?
nostrich · 1w
Others can also broadcast your events, signed by you, once they receive them and, canonically, reposts have a full stringified copy of your original event as their content. It's not that you can never delete an event. It's that anyone at all can prevent you from doing so and you can never know for s...