{"id":3025,"date":"2025-07-22T21:13:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:13:46","slug":"nostr-needs-a-nip-to-delete-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=3025","title":{"rendered":"Nostr needs a NIP to delete media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One thing I noticed on Nostr is after uploading an image, if I delete the related Nostr note (via a kind:5 delete), the media still remains on the media server, example Nostr Build website .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That creates &#8220;orphaned media&#8221; that: Wastes storage Is no longer referenced anywhere May be something the user wanted removed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think media hosts like Nostr Build should push for a NIP (protocol proposal) that defines a way for hosts to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be notified when a note is deleted Know which npub originally used the media Automatically clean up unreferenced or deleted media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example I made a draft note and uploaded this Bitcoin picture using Amethyst with media server Nostr Build but I never actually submitted the note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.nostr.build\/4798c01ec9edef36138fa9153222b7023e46349f5046b7cd1626b8810e926129.jpg\">https:\/\/image.nostr.build\/4798c01ec9edef36138fa9153222b7023e46349f5046b7cd1626b8810e926129.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I deleted the draft and noticed the picture is still on Nostr Builds website forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/image\/nostr-media-servers.VLLr\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/images\/2025\/07\/21\/nostr-media-servers.webp\" alt=\"nostr media servers\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p>\n    Note ID:\n    <br>\n    <code id=\"nostrNote\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;\">note1k92lu6gmz3wgfcp6klvtelvkv6f5m76l9ltjqtc4tdemv0uafygsl2unn6<\/code>\n    <br>\n    <button onclick=\"copyToClipboard('nostrNote')\">Copy<\/button>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/btcpay.letsfo.com\/apps\/cyXxp1RKxQnN8bpQJjvwSEHjXbP\/pos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/images\/zapmar.png\"><\/a>Post#442\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I noticed on Nostr is after uploading an image, if I delete the related Nostr note (via a kind:5 delete), the media still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/images\/2025\/07\/21\/nostr-media-servers.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[105,289,545],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media","tag-nostr","tag-nostr-build","tag-nostr-media-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}