Kinda weird and sus that some Mastodon instances aren’t respecting deletes…
Had a post I deleted last week that just got replied to, from a mastodon instance.
And people wonder why casual users don’t wanna be here…🤦♂️
#Mastodon #Fedi #Fediverse
@BeAware@social.beaware.live which instance? That sounds more like a bug than anything, you’d have to go out of your way to reject deletes right or just never receive the DELETE message?
@tom@tomkahe.com https://mastodon.acm.org/@nikatjef/113159038341162925
I deleted the post that this is replying to.
You won’t find it on my instance. Yet, there it is.
Not sure what it is, but it doesn’t feel good.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live @tom I would like to think this is sorta a “if a tree falls in a forest” kinda thing or maybe just a relay not doing a good job. If you have a follower from that instance it absolutely should not happen…
@ThaMunsta @BeAware actually now that you mention it, I’m not sure how Mastodon decides where to send Deletes to
Like, does it maintain a list of all servers that requested your post? That feels excessive but also probably the only way to ensure that every server that has your data deletes it. Or does it just send it to all your followers and servers that boosted/liked it
@BeAware@social.beaware.live yeah weird, it’s gotta be a bug because I doubt acm.org is intentionally archiving posts lol
I would hope that mastodon notifies the server if they replied to a deleted post though, in case a delete message falls through