Copying my thoughts here from NIP669 on GitHub……..


I do agree it will need to be addressed. Until it is available, some people will just not understand or want to use Nostr. Perhaps that is _ok_ but I do believe that Nostr will be better with a more diverse user base and supporting deletions or edits isn't sinking to the lowest common denominator. I believe it would be valualeble for everyone.

I agree with your thoughts, and think they are better than these other ideas I present as well but I did want to share some more options.

**Expiration Option on Notes**
It could perhaps be possible to have an option of notes having an expiration time.
This wouldn’t necessarily allow for deletion but if someone is generally more interested in removing their discourse history than preserving it they could choose to post a note for only 1 Month etc. All relays would know upfront of when it will be deleted or it just wouldn’t have it.

In the future, it could be implemented that you could remove the expiration of a note if you found it was important to keep up. The downside is perhaps a relay wouldn’t get the memo to not delete but at least most relays would.

In this scenario, there is nothing stopping someone from setting up a bot to scrape and save all notes with an expiration time so they can effectively nullify the expiration in the public’s view but this issue is also possible on any other social media platform with public profiles.

**Un-Post a Note**
The issue I see with this is it is ultimately up to the relay and/or operator to respect the request to delete or tombstone. An operator could always modify the relay to not follow protocol. I have this other idea, which may be flawed but perhaps viable. What if nostr didn't actually purge the data and instead returned the event along with the additional tombstone classification? A user could “un-post” a note (not delete). This would then be interpreted by clients and presented to the user as something like _“Un-posted note is struck from record at request of poster. For posterity, click to reveal original note._”