I have been curious of this one since it's a feature that mastodon has, and while I understand with FOSS software anyone can disable that, but usually people don't and if I knew they were doing that I would defederate them.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Admittedly I hadn't experimented to be sure, but I assumed edits and deletes would have been federated already. Are they really not?

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Comment and post edits and deletes are federated. OP probably means account deletion. Currently, if you delete your Lemmy account, it does not federate, so your old comments and posts stick around on other instances, I believe even with your old username attached.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy be deadnaming us! #cancellemmy

[–] density@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

You are terribly unfunny

[–] Oyster_Lust@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clearing that up. I was truly confused.

[–] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are federated, but it's not reliable. Lot of room for improvement. I have comments where the deletion never federated so they're basically on other servers forever.

[–] OverfedRaccoon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've made edits and deletes, and as far as I can tell, once the instances sync up, those edits/deletes are synced as well - I have noticed a delay, but it usually kicks in like overnight (for example) when I make a change using my account on lemm.ee for my account on lemmy.world to see it, etc.