@hpk The Postgres operations for cleaning up / cascading for deletes is a lot -- can cascade to other activities like favorites, boosts, etc, enough to break low powered servers. So it's made up but wouldn't surprise me. I wasn't even thinking about operations that Mastodon probably does to delete all media it is holding for them too.

The number is completely made up but I think it's plausible if not today than in the near future for a delete coming from a Mastodon.social user