Oddbean

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 nostr:nprofile1qqsxqn5kuzvex6ssfzpetzcypdrkwts0qjxf3tre8umllex8yqneavsprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdnxcctjv5hxxmmdqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2qgjwaehxw309amk7apww468smewdahx208h2hh how'd you mass delete?

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 I used nak to pull down all of the events on a relay from a particular npub, then I broke it up into 100-event chunks, published a kind 05 for each of those chunks, and then broadcasted the kind 05 to the whole list.

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 Some clients have a local relay so the notes might still show up for you until you clear the cache. You can use nak to verify if other relays are still serving the events.

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 I did it in batches with a custom script I wrote. I can check if I saved the script when I get home.

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 I used Blastr to publish the delete events. Not sure if Mutiny’s Blastr relay is still up. I deleted over 10k events like this.

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 He had a delete script, too, that ran on nostr-tool, but it doesn't work right now.

I can just download the full nostr.watch API list, like he did and run through it. Didn't want to do that, if I can avoid it, as it spams everyone's relays, but oh well.

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 I did mine in batches of 256, so I sent fewer than 50 queries to each relay. That shouldn’t bother relays. If it does, we have a bigger problem. 

Here’s my script if you want to compare it to what you wrote. 

https://gist.github.com/SamSamskies/0088e7a14f3df37550c796481b54d0fe

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 Just upped it to 1000 per batch. Heh. YOLO, baby.

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 I did 256 cause I think some relays have that cap on event tags or at least they used to

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 I think everyone upped it because of follows. 😅

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 That name! 🤣

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 That was the hashtag I used for the nukening of my old profile and notes. I think @liminal was the only one that noticed me do this. 😂

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 Here's how I get around using blastr. I looked where he gets the relay list from. He just uses the API from Nostr.Watch.

```
// download a list of active relays
$url = "https://api.nostr.watch/v1/online";    
$page = file_get_contents($url);
$requestedRelays = json_decode($page, true);
sort($requestedRelays);
```

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 From the results, it looks like some of the relays are rejecting notes from npubs without a valid NIP-05.

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 It’s possible they don’t have the note to delete then. If they do, just add a nip-05 on the npub. Once you’re done deleting the notes, you can remove the nip-05 or just nuke the kind 0.

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 They probably don't have it, since I never had a NIP-05 on that npub and haven't used it in half a year.

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 Just thought it was interesting that not having a NIP-05 might prevent you from persistently deleting your own events.

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 here's the script https://gist.github.com/SamSamskies/0088e7a14f3df37550c796481b54d0fe