How does Mastodon/GNU Social handle deleted toots? It seems like the federation model is inevitably going to cause things to... linger
@nei when you delete a post the server sends a signal about it to the servers it's subscribed to and the contract is that they delete it on their end as well
a malicious instance could ignore that signal, but that's true of anything you could say about communication between instances, so it's not really part of the threat model afaik
@typhlosion I see... how long does that propagation typically take, do you know?
@typhlosion @nei the signal to delete is sent to the same instances it was originally sent to when the toot was posted, IIRC, so if it was boosted and propogated farther then it won't be deleted from those instances
At least this is how I remember it working
@KS @typhlosion @nei I’m pretty sure this is how it still works, since I can boost toots from dead instances if they were boosted by a user on a different instance.