NIP-18
Reposts
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A repost is a kind 6
event that is used to signal to followers that a kind 1
text note is worth reading.
The content
of a repost event is the stringified JSON of the reposted note. It MAY also be empty, but that is not recommended. Reposts of NIP-70-protected events SHOULD always have an empty content
.
The repost event MUST include an e
tag with the id
of the note that is being reposted. That tag MUST include a relay URL as its third entry to indicate where it can be fetched.
The repost SHOULD include a p
tag with the pubkey
of the event being reposted.
Quote Reposts
Quote reposts are kind 1
events with an embedded q
tag of the note being quote reposted. 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.
q
tags should follow the same conventions as NIP 10 e
tags, with the exception of the mark
argument.
["q", <event-id>, <relay-url>, <pubkey>]
Quote reposts MUST include the NIP-21 nevent
, note
, or naddr
of the event in the content.
Generic Reposts
Since kind 6
reposts are reserved for kind 1
contents, we use kind 16
as a "generic repost", that can include any kind of event inside other than kind 1
.
kind 16
reposts SHOULD contain a k
tag with the stringified kind number of the reposted event as its value.