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How long ago did you delete it? Deletions are federated just like anything else, so it can take a while for deletions to federate out to all instances sometimes. Deleted accounts are particularly hard-hitting on instance resources because it's a lot of changes all at once. Small instances can actually go down for a few seconds when a large account gets deleted somewhere on the Fediverse.
As with all things open source it'll probably improve slowly but steadily over time.
If two instances defederate, then the servers aren't "talking" to each other anymore, meaning anything after defederation doesn't get synced. So yeah, if you had an account, then your instance defederated, and then you deleted the account, your posts from before could still be theorhetically readable on the defederated instance. Admins can easily purge accounts from the database, so it wouldn't hurt to reach out if you said something regretfull that was still visible.
I don't think the second scenario is capable of happening (yet) since ActivityPub is backwards compatible.