hi i just wanted to ask a question which is the following umm why, why does when you do delete a post in profile your main profile does it not get deleted?? like it gets deleted but in the main profile it gets a little trash can symbol red symbol, red symbol on the right!! which means that it's been deleted but it still shows up in my profile history how can i delete it forever please?? thanks you so much!!!

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because it takes a bit for the request to delete to get sent to every single instance that might have duplicated the post. It then takes time for the post to be deleted, assuming the instances that receive the request to delete follow the request. Also YOU yourself will still see the content because you will have the option to restore it if you didn't intend to delete it.

Same for when you post. I've noticed about an average of about 20 minutes before my posts are visible on other instances.

In the future, I would recommend assuming that anything you post to Lemmy or any other website/social media will be up there forever because once it's out in the open, it may be entirely impossible to remove every single instance of that post from every single thing that copied it. The server may be malicious itself and not honor any deletion requests, as well as users who may have seen the post archived it themselves.