How the hell did you read that, i literally wrote it, sent it and thought “uhmm yeah but i guess people don’t care enough” and deleted 2 sec after i sent it
XD
I’m not super in the know about how all this stuff works, but it’s the result of how federation works.
You made your post on feddit, hit send, and then it flows out to every Lemmy host federated with feddit. So once you toss a post out there, it’s now out there in (insert number of federated servers) different copies stored individually on those hosts.
Now you decide to delete. That can be prioritized or handled differently based on the version of Lemmy each host is running.
I got a reply notification saying you replied to one of my comments, but when I clicked the notification, it said you deleted it.
I am even less clear about how deletes are handled, but it’s saved my butt before when I’ve accidentally deleted one of my own posts. There must be some type of buffer time between when a delete request is received and when it is actually purged.
If you hit the reply button on a deleted post, you will sometimes get to read the stored post! I can’t see your deleted comment now, so that’s what makes me think there’s a built in delay, but I obviously could read it fine yesterday to reply to what you said.
You can do it on any deleted comment. I like finding deleted down voted comments and trying this “trick” to see what things people try to hide from the record.
I’m sure I’ve if the instance communities or maybe one of the privacy ones could give you much better details, but this is my for dummies like me version.
If you’re unaware, people can also look who upvotes/downvotes. It’s not available to most people in Lemmy itself, but there’s an online tool that posts the info since it’s technically public, just obscured by the UI.
So a lot of Lemmy falls under the old “once something is on the Internet, it always is” thing. Once you post or vote, it doesn’t always just go poof when you ask the computer to make it go away.
Aww, you didn’t have to delete that. I believe you’re technically correct, since proper spaghetti is an extruded pasta.
I like all noodles, so I ignored the technicality.
How the hell did you read that, i literally wrote it, sent it and thought “uhmm yeah but i guess people don’t care enough” and deleted 2 sec after i sent it XD
I’m not super in the know about how all this stuff works, but it’s the result of how federation works.
You made your post on feddit, hit send, and then it flows out to every Lemmy host federated with feddit. So once you toss a post out there, it’s now out there in (insert number of federated servers) different copies stored individually on those hosts.
Now you decide to delete. That can be prioritized or handled differently based on the version of Lemmy each host is running.
I got a reply notification saying you replied to one of my comments, but when I clicked the notification, it said you deleted it.
I am even less clear about how deletes are handled, but it’s saved my butt before when I’ve accidentally deleted one of my own posts. There must be some type of buffer time between when a delete request is received and when it is actually purged.
If you hit the reply button on a deleted post, you will sometimes get to read the stored post! I can’t see your deleted comment now, so that’s what makes me think there’s a built in delay, but I obviously could read it fine yesterday to reply to what you said.
You can do it on any deleted comment. I like finding deleted down voted comments and trying this “trick” to see what things people try to hide from the record.
I’m sure I’ve if the instance communities or maybe one of the privacy ones could give you much better details, but this is my for dummies like me version.
If you’re unaware, people can also look who upvotes/downvotes. It’s not available to most people in Lemmy itself, but there’s an online tool that posts the info since it’s technically public, just obscured by the UI.
So a lot of Lemmy falls under the old “once something is on the Internet, it always is” thing. Once you post or vote, it doesn’t always just go poof when you ask the computer to make it go away.