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   msdropbear42 (msdropbear42@venera.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 17:57:03 JST msdropbear42

   • Friendica Support

   @helpers

   I've a feeling this question will embarrass me for my shameful lack of proper grasp of some fediverse basics, but here goes...

   • i have three #Friendica accounts, ie, this & two others. I also have a couple of Mastodon accounts.
   • one of my Friendica accounts [not this one] has been giving me major grief with random server unavailability [its current outage began ~23 hours ago]
   • during the comparatively short life of that account, i've not made anywhere near as many posts as my other accounts, nevertheless i have made a non-trivial number, including participating in various conversations
   • if i were to delete that account [next time that i can access it, ofc] would all those posts & convos still exist in the fediverse, via the federating effect that would/should have occurred, or do they all then just vaporise without trace anywhere?
   • i surmise it's the former, but in case it's the latter i hope for wiser heads to pls advise me before i do the deed.

   Thanks.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 17:56:58 JST clacke

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     • heluecht

     @heluecht How widely does Friendica send the deletions? I think Mastodon sends to all known hosts (and some people have been complaining about the load that generates), does Friendica do that too, or does it notify followers only?

     @msdropbear42

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     heluecht (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 17:57:01 JST heluecht

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     • Friendica Support
     @msdropbear42 When an account is deleted, the system tries to delete all posts as well. Though most likely some fragments won't be deleted.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 23:46:23 JST clacke

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     • heluecht

     @heluecht I honestly don't know which way I prefer. Maybe a small server should spam everyone but a megaserver like mastosoc should be more chill so it doesn't destroy smaller servers.

     I think it rate-limits itself at least.

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     heluecht (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 23:46:26 JST heluecht

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     • heluecht
     • clacke
     @clacke I would have to have a deeper look into the code for that. But is is likely that there is room for improvement here.