What is the fh did I just read

  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Hey, you wanna give more context to point 3? I only found comments regarding that delete will spread but the servers can (though should not I guess) just replace the deleted object with a “Tombstone” object and thus not really delete.

    • jherazob@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I’m busy right now, will look for the exact code snippets later, but in summary from what i read earlier when i first came across these claims last month or so, any activity that happens with a comment is also federated: Creation, editing and deletion, so barring any cache that will eventually expire, or an instance going down, the lifetime of a message will be replicated across anything that federates with it.

      And yes, a patched instance could just ignore deletion and save everything, but at that point you’re fighting a rogue element and the rules change, we’re discussing the normal, designed behavior of the software.