Deleted posts are still visible in the community

late_night@sopuli.xyz to Jerboa@lemmy.ml – 43 points –

I deleted a post after I accidentally posted it twice from two different accounts (on sopuli and fmhy).

The deleted post was as I expected gone from my sopuli account, but from my fmhy account I can see that both posts are still up. People can still see and comment on both. I just can no longer see it.

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Can confirm. I deleted this a week ago, and after seeing your post, I checked it on a web browser without logging in.

Just a hypothesis:

Could it be, that post creation is synchronised between federated instances, but deletions are not?
If that's the case, nothing could ever be deleted from Lemmy - but that wouldn't be Jerboa's fault.

Pretty sure it has to do with the content not being updated on that instance then. It should be deleted but I can imagine it taking time for instances to instances.