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📊 Fediverse Awareness Check:

When you hit send on a post, your app sends copies of that post to be stored on over 40,000 connected servers (hard drives) around the world.

When you delete a post, it sends a request to those servers to delete their copy, but it can't always be guaranteed and your post may remain visible online.

Are you aware of this?
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@jaz @Kingslayer Also good to know that not all servers keep everything forever. Mine deletes anything older than 180 days. The fediverse isn’t guaranteed to be forever, either.
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