Strypey on Nostr: One problem with Vanishing Messages in decentralised networks is that you have to ...
One problem with Vanishing Messages in decentralised networks is that you have to trust that the server(s) you're sending messages to will honour whatever requests you send them later about those messages. Including requests to delete them.
A server could send back a receipt claiming to have deleted the message, but how do you really know? Maybe it did delete the message from the chat, but kept a copy in the database? Or copied it to another database.
You just have to trust it.
(5/)
Published at
2023-08-10 10:28:14Event JSON
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