I've been archiving my own Nostr history on a home relay (self-hosted on StartOS), and today I compared it with what public relays still serve.
Of my 1,690 events going back to January 2022, 1,236 are no longer on any of the 18 relays I asked. Some of the biggest relays have pruned most of my history in the last six weeks. My very first note from 2022 now exists only in my archive and in Primal's cache.
I tried to republish the missing events. They're my own signed events, so no key is needed. Every relay I tried rejected anything older than three years with "created_at too early". So the oldest part of my history can't even be restored.
#asknostr: does anyone know of relays that:
1. don't prune, and
2. accept old, validly signed events, so you can backfill your own history?
Paid is fine. I'd rather pay for a relay that keeps things than find out later that my notes are gone.
