I’m interested in how’d find such a thing as a “federated copy.” Do you just go on a federated instance and search for the same post? Or copy the ID number in the URL? And how’d you choose the right instance, luck?
It seems like a bug in this case. Generally if a post is deleted on its home instance it is supposed to tell it to be deleted on others. Maybe they deleted this account instead of deleting the post and this made it act funky.
Sadly it was much more tame: search engines. They’ve been crawling Lemmy for a couple years now. I remembered just enough to get hits on that post from a couple instances. Luckily one didn’t delete it when OP scrapped the original. I’m a bit curious myself why that is, but in any case it gives us a backup of the post.
I’m interested in how’d find such a thing as a “federated copy.” Do you just go on a federated instance and search for the same post? Or copy the ID number in the URL? And how’d you choose the right instance, luck?
It seems like a bug in this case. Generally if a post is deleted on its home instance it is supposed to tell it to be deleted on others. Maybe they deleted this account instead of deleting the post and this made it act funky.
Meaning it depends on the instance what they’d do? Seems like an obvious thing to test in testing phase
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You’re welcome to contribute testing effort. It’s an open source, community driven project.
Ye I know I just meant it’d seem like an obvious thing to test. But then again, there are a thousand such cases, probably
Sadly it was much more tame: search engines. They’ve been crawling Lemmy for a couple years now. I remembered just enough to get hits on that post from a couple instances. Luckily one didn’t delete it when OP scrapped the original. I’m a bit curious myself why that is, but in any case it gives us a backup of the post.
Not who you’re asking, but I assume you find either an instance that is slow to federate, or one that doesn’t honor deletion requests.