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 Youโ€™re so new here. ๐Ÿฅน๐Ÿ˜›๐Ÿฅฐ
Perhaps only since youโ€™ve started following. ๐Ÿ™ƒ
Too bad relays delete old content and most my photos disappear over time. ๐Ÿฅฒ 
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 Relays delete content? I thought that was one of the things Nostr was supposed to be was undeleteable. I'm not a techy person so maybe I just don't know.  
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 Thereโ€™s a difference here.

You canโ€™t โ€œdeleteโ€ anything on nostr because that would require the ability to force all relays with a copy of something to delete it in unison.

Any given relay is free to delete what it wants though. There are costs to data storage and relays should be expected to manage their costs as they see fit. 
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 Got it. That makes more sense. Thanks to both of you!  
 Itโ€™s not that the relays delete the content itโ€™s just the content disappears sometimes over time.