@Moon the federated deletes situation is really untenable. I am wondering what we could possibly do to resolve it... it's not scalable at all.

I almost think we should retire federated deletes completely and let other servers try to fetch an update for a post on demand when it's accessed but limited to once every 30 mins or so, and if you get a 410 you delete it locally as well.

The deletes are going to crush anyone trying to run a small service that can federate