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The issue is that you can't remove yourself from private groups. It's like people including your email on a thread, you can't really remove it. But we could code a hide group feature.

A good solution would be to "delete" the group, archiving or hiding it completely until someone sends a second invitation - if that's possible.

We can call it delete, but your phone will still be receiving these DMs. The phone would just hide them. There is no way to block people from messaging you on the current NIP 17.

WhatsApp has a feature to hide conversations (and groups, I think) with a password. SimpleX It allows you to hide profiles via password, which is somewhat similar. Would it be possible to do something like this with a group? Encrypt it with your private key and hide it?

Sure, as long as the phone is still receiving it, we can do this on the client. It needs to be a password though because otherwise anyone that opens the app (which has access to your keys) can unhide those messages.

I understand. But wouldn't that help prevent people from adding you to groups you don't want to be added to? Like "Private group spam"?

Anyone will always be able to add you to groups. It's similar to anyone will always be able to send you a notification. If they can't spam you via DM, they will spam you via notifications. There is no way to block people from citing your key. But we can hide them.

A slightly off-topic question about groups: do you know why Amethyst, 0xchat, and KeyChat allow you to see the same messages on your profile, but WhiteNoise doesn't? In Amethyst, I can receive messages and see them on those other clients, but not on WhiteNoise. Do you know why that is?