"The bad people" can and will store anything broadcast on Nostr that interests them, for as long as they please, NIP-09 be damned.
It is _polite_ for relays and clients to honour NIP-09 requests, but let's not mistake that for any kind of security.
At best, this could inconvenience bad actors who (a) lack the resources to store everything even short term and (b) who first took an interest in your account AFTER you posted a delete request for your content of concern.
Yeah. Nah.
SSB was very good training there.
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What you are asking for requires a time machine.
Or a completely closed and centralised relay and client ecosystem; with perfect security and not subject to external coercion.
The time machine sounds like the easier challenge.
this whole topic is very odd.
the way people respond is quite strange.
People who want it, invoke portents of doom.
And people who don’t, misrepresent difficulties in achieving it as gigantic impossibilities, so don’t even try, and you’re dumb for suggesting it.
The amount of emotion connected to this, and the know it all vibes seem quite weird and out of place.
it’s a curiosity
I didn't use the word "dumb".
I prefer to think they haven't given thought to the practicalities of retrospectively changing data that was broadcast in an open ecosystem that already has bad actors inside the walls.
Disallow is simply not enough. Anything can be written down, but there have to be technology to assure it is not possible... But I honestly believe there is no mechanism which would prevent something once public to be completely deleted and removed.
It is like seeing Stargate and saying we should build those and explore the universe... It would be great, maybe it is even possible with technology advanced enough—who knows, but right now I can't imagine it could be done. It is not dumb to ask for something like that per se, but it doesn't change the fact that it can't be done.
