I found a way to retrieve the text of comments deleted by user or mod. I don’t think it is an issue of federated instances not respecting the deletion.

Is it a bug?

Or is “deleting” always really just “hiding”?

  • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    deleted by user stuff should really not be returned but its possible (ugh) that they’re just doing that on the frontend.

    They definitely are, I can read deleted comments on boost.