You can delete Nostr posts, actually. But someone can also request that relays keep the content. So the deletion might only stick if nobody wants to keep the content around.
https://nips.nostr.com/9
weev
npub1we…409xg
2026-04-28 06:21:13 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…ek8c
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npub1weev88wc43slz6jjlq2h30ltmd0ccu9utfe8wet2kkax0w6epavqw409xgPublished at
2026-04-28 06:21:13 UTCEvent JSON
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