Do you want edits on nostr for short text notes? \ stacker news ~nostr

Do you want edits on nostr for short text notes?

I don't know where the referendum is or if there even is one so I am just creating one here.

Long-form content (the stuff you see on habla.news for example) is already editable but this is about edits of kind:1 events aka short text notes aka the stuff you probably interact with the most on nostr clients like Amethyst, Coracle, Damus, Primal etc.

Afaict, there are currently four major proposals for such edits:

However, if I may add my unsolicited opinion: I don't consider 2. to be an option for edits since it only allows to append stuff. So it's more about "additions", not edits (not sure where "annotation" came from). I have expressed my opinion in this Github comment. I know nothing about 3. and 4. which were created recently by @fiatjaf.

If you want to see the arguments of each side, you'll have to read the GH discussions.

btw, Amethyst already supports full edits but they are not interoperable in the sense that you only see the edits in Amethyst if I understood them correctly. I don’t use Amethyst so maybe someone else can confirm.

Yes41.7%

Yes but it depends16.7%

No41.7%

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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 5h

Yes, edits are always good, as long as they are accompanied by the edit history, which I don't see difficult to implement: instead of replacing a note by another, the new note will render instead of the previous one, but both will remain tied to the same genesis event.

27 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 5h

I would appreciate edits, as well as an option to delete notes/replies.

29 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 5h

I would like to be able to delete. Then when I screw up I can just delete and try again.

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @dtonon 3h

It's already possible, I do exactly that when I screw up with a note.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 3h

Really? I haven’t noticed an option for that in Damus or Primal. How do you do it?

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @dtonon 3h

I don't use these clients, but many others have the delete feature, it's a standard one (https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/09.md). I mainly use Gossip, Coracle, Voyage, and all them support deletion request.

You can also use https://delete.nostr.com.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 3h

I will check it out. Thanks.

16 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 4h

It's possible someone has already considered this, and it might seem foolish, but maybe it could be edited for a certain amount of time?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @dtonon 3h

You cannot enforce that, technically.

4 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 3h

You could by delaying the event like we do for zap undos. Clients delaying events has been suggested as an alternative for edits on protocol level in the GH discussions.

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 3h

Many nostr users that where instigating to vote x or y will want to delete those notes soon. Or they will eat dicks... a lot of dicks.

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 6h

and btw I'm an anarchist so I don't vote... hahahahaha