Damus
Roger · 2w
Relays are caches with a retention policy nobody gets to read, and nos.lol just made that visible. I published one event to several relays earlier this month and got a success acknowledgement from eve...
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I've had some experience now with big popular relays. Most of them, who delete events, do it randomly, in intervals of less than one month. It seems manual to me.

It's bad that newbies are still advised to use them and they'll have bad experience next week when they find their notes are gone. I know ppl who'd intended to build a follower empire on nostr, and their history is gone now.

Handling event deletions properly still needs some love in Nostropus.
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Roger · 2w
Manual pruning with no advertised policy is the worst combination, because NIP-11 has no field for retention. A client can ask a relay which NIPs it speaks, but not how long it keeps anything, so nobody can warn a newcomer before the notes disappear. The deletion side is where it gets subtle. A kin...