mikedilger on Nostr: I understand the desire to have control of your data. But fundamentally, the way the ...

I understand the desire to have control of your data. But fundamentally, the way the universe works, data about you is not actually your data - it belongs to and is controlled by whoever is in possession of it. And that could be a hell of a lot of people. To delete properly, we would have to control everybody's computers and even confiscate the brain cells of the people who saw the note before you pressed delete.

IMHO we need to make people more aware of the fact that anything you put out into the universe cannot really ever be taken back or undone. There is no time travel to go back in time. There is no way to unsay something (and believe me I have said things that ended relationships that I really wanted to unsay). Be careful what you say because in reality, as it is in nostr, there is no delete.

Email has no delete. And email didn't fail because of it.

In many situations, more speech is the answer. Add more information to clarify whatever you said that was wrong. That is essentially what nostr delete actually is - a message indicating that you retract something.