I uploaded an image and posted, then realised it wasn’t cropped and deleted it about a minute later. Somehow the post has garnered 6 upvotes in the few hours since despite being deleted. How?
I uploaded an image and posted, then realised it wasn’t cropped and deleted it about a minute later. Somehow the post has garnered 6 upvotes in the few hours since despite being deleted. How?
When you post something it gets sent out to every federated instance. When you delete something, it sends a deletion request to all federated instances. Other instances can process this request slowly (or not at all) so you end up with posts/comments that look deleted to you but still show up on other instances.
At least that is my understanding of how it works.