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Improve generic reposts for replaceable events #2132

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Improve generic reposts for replaceable events
CodyTseng Nov 20, 2025
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CodyTseng Nov 20, 2025
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Add clarification for reposting specific versions of replaceable events
CodyTseng Dec 1, 2025
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NIP-18
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# NIP-18

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## Reposts
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@CodyTseng Why did you change this?

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@CodyTseng CodyTseng Dec 4, 2025

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Sorry about that! I didn’t notice the change. My Markdown plugin auto-formatted it. I’ll submit a PR to revert that modification.

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@CodyTseng It has already been fixed in 97d3531.

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Thanks for the heads-up!


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Expand All @@ -21,9 +19,9 @@ reposted.

## Quote Reposts

Mentions to [NIP-21](21.md) entities like `nevent`, `note` and `naddr` on any
event must be converted into `q` tags. The `q` tag ensures quote reposts are
not pulled and included as replies in threads. It also allows you to easily
Mentions to [NIP-21](21.md) entities like `nevent`, `note` and `naddr` on any
event must be converted into `q` tags. The `q` tag ensures quote reposts are
not pulled and included as replies in threads. It also allows you to easily
pull and count all of the quotes for a post. The syntax follows

`["q", "<event-id> or <event-address>", "<relay-url>", "<pubkey-if-a-regular-event>"]`
Expand All @@ -36,3 +34,10 @@ as a "generic repost", that can include any kind of event inside other than

`kind 16` reposts SHOULD contain a `"k"` tag with the stringified kind number
of the reposted event as its value.

When reposting a replaceable event, the repost SHOULD include an `"a"` tag with
the event coordinate (`kind:pubkey:d-tag`) of the reposted event.

If the `"a"` tag is not present, it indicates that a specific version of a replaceable
event is being reposted, in which case the `content` field must contain the full
JSON string of the reposted event.