I've had some experience now with big popular relays. Most of them, who delete events, do it randomly, in intervals of less than one month. It seems manual to me.
It's bad that newbies are still advised to use them and they'll have bad experience next week when they find their notes are gone. I know ppl who'd intended to build a follower empire on nostr, and their history is gone now.
Handling event deletions properly still needs some love in Nostropus.
Lez
npub1el…2cume
2026-10-25 07:32:32 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…d26m
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