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You can't assume that when you mark a #post for #deletion that it will be #deleted across the #fediverse. Whether a post gets deleted on a remote #server is entirely up to that server.
I guarantee you there are organizations and individuals here on the Fediverse right now that are running their own #ActivityPub servers and are #archiving and #cataloging every post, and they are #ignoring any #Delete #requests.
Because when you mark a post for deletion, that's all you're doing. You're requesting the remote server to delete the post from its #database.
And nobody is required to do that.
(Though the vast majority of ActivityPub servers do.)
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RE: https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/113669267720362794
deletion
<p>For context:</p> <ul> <li>Two big threadiverse implementors (and probably mbin) currently federate <code>Announce(Delete(Object))</code> for deletion of content — all synchronized communities follow suit and delete the content as well.</li> <li>If that object is the root-level node, and it is deleted, <em>everything below it is also deleted</em>.</li> <li>Lemmy and Piefed are investigating the possibility of changing this behaviour so that the action deletes the <em>object itself only</em>, and the reply tree stays.</li> </ul>