We use this in our chat because we're so prolific that people would show up, after being away for a couple weeks, and get hit with a download of 2000 notes and freak out and leave the chat.

This seems like a "third way" because we're not demanding a deletion, that'll leave a deletion note on the relay forever. We're saying, "We don't care, if you want to delete this GM note or 😂 after x time." Because we dont. We don't care. This tag means that even if someone rebroadcasts our emoji, you can ignore it, because the expiration date is permanently in the note. I've got like 100k events out there and most of it is just chit chat, shitposts, reposts, and emojis. If we write something really helpful or profound, we write an article or a wiki with the content, as those are our "keeper notes". And we download our notes and we don't have to hard-delete them locally because there's no deletion event. And this strengthens the case for classifying replies, rather than having everything just Kind 1. Replies to articles or git repo issues are worth saving. Shitposts, usually not.

You're telling me, someone invented them, but nobody built them, but they're a whole NIP, even though it's just a tag? View quoted note →