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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FediTips</span></a></span> <br>You can't assume that when you mark a <a href="/tags/post/" rel="tag">#post</a> for <a href="/tags/deletion/" rel="tag">#deletion</a> that it will be <a href="/tags/deleted/" rel="tag">#deleted</a> across the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a>. Whether a post gets deleted on a remote <a href="/tags/server/" rel="tag">#server</a> is entirely up to that server.<br><br>I guarantee you there are organizations and individuals here on the Fediverse right now that are running their own <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> servers and are <a href="/tags/archiving/" rel="tag">#archiving</a> and <a href="/tags/cataloging/" rel="tag">#cataloging</a> every post, and they are <a href="/tags/ignoring/" rel="tag">#ignoring</a> any <a href="/tags/delete/" rel="tag">#Delete</a> <a href="/tags/requests/" rel="tag">#requests</a>.<br><br>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 <a href="/tags/database/" rel="tag">#database</a>.<br><br>And nobody is required to do that.<br><br>(Though the vast majority of ActivityPub servers do.)<br><br><a href="/tags/feditips/" rel="tag">#FediTips</a><br><br>RE: <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/113669267720362794" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/113669267720362794"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.growyourown.services/us</span><span class="invisible">ers/FediTips/statuses/113669267720362794</span></a></p>
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<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>