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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn. This is not very good

[–] [email protected] 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 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah that’s always true

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[email protected] would probably be a better place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks