I just mistakenly made a comment on my post on lemmy.world and while it shows deleted on jerboa (up to date app) I can see it on eternity and attempts at deleting say delete failed (not up to date) but more importantly I can view the comment from my main too.

Is this a federation issue thanks to 0.19, a pre existing federation issue or something else? This could be a serious issue if someone copy/pasted their password or smth by mistake (as I nearly did).

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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Deleted posts are deleted from their instance only. This is often synced, but it doesn’t have to be the case.

Anything you post, cannot be entirely deleted. So if you’ve accidentally pasted a password, I’d recommend changing your password.

[–] Lacanoodle 5 points 10 months ago

Issue is the upvote on the comment has also been federated. I can see the upvote (post deletion attemp). I only upvoted the comment from my main to check after i had deleted it.

And no I didnt post my password tho it was on my clipboard and I could've tapped it with my fat fingers.

[–] itscozydownhere@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn. This is not very good

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's the nature of the beast.

Think of it like hitting 'reply all' in a large email, sure the people who got the email might delete but they might also not.

At the end of the day, very little is actually deleted from the Internet anyway so we should always be mindful of what we put on here.

[–] itscozydownhere@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah that’s always true

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In my experience edits and upvotes federate completely. Deletions apply to your server and the server that hosts the community, and some other servers.

I haven't figured out what is causing the random behaviour of deletes, but as a workaround, you can edit your comment into an empty post and then delete it to hide the information as best as you can.

That said, consider anything posted on the Fediverse to be there permanently. I don't think anyone malicious is scraping comments per se, but ActivityPub implementations are so buggy that you simply can't expect edits or deletes or any other interaction to arrive at all servers that received the original post.

[–] Lacanoodle 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Also, is this the community I should be posting lemmy issues on?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

!lemmy@lemmy.ml would probably be a better place.

[–] Lacanoodle 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks