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If I had an old account on a server that's been deleted for like 2 years now, how likely is it that those posts are still floating around somewhere in another server's cache? If I delete posts from this account, how long are they likely to stay in other servers' caches? I frankly have no idea how any of this works I'm just spitting out buzz words from other posts I've seen
@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social extremely complicated. it depends entirely on how well federated your old account was. how many of those instances you interacted with are still online 2 years later. as for the second question? it also depends. certain instances reject DELETE activities (this is intentional, often used maliciously) and so it's hard to say how long they may stay in other instances. it depends on how your instance handles deletes of posts too. certain software likes to fire off delete activities all at once to every instance (and those instances may be offline and unable to receive them... so many things)
1) quite likely.
2) No way to answer that question, deletions are notoriously finicky at federating so even if you delete the posts, there may be servers that see the post but not the deletion for whatever reason.
@raphaelmorgan it depends on the software used and cleaning routines.
There are also modified software that does not respect delete commands.
There are also communication errors, they may happen as well.
So this varies very much. It can take a while before the cache is purged, if at all.
Here every night a script is run in order to clean posts from users that have no relationship, did not interact, orphaned media and the like.
But this is because I dug the documentation and found the Mastodon commands.
@cadusilva @raphaelmorgan with a deleted server it really depends on if they ran the self-destruct command or not before deleting
due to the uptime of servers not being guaranteed, masto will never remove posts from unavailable servers, unless you manually block the domain and purge the information (or run a script like that)
afaik masto will send a delete to every instance it knows has the post, i don't know if this is guaranteed to be every instance that has it
@Ember @raphaelmorgan the self-destruct command is something I wish was available in more fedi software.
(And I think I digressed a little 
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