Another co-reply to the person I replied to, Kolanaki@yiffit.net (link) said it well imho:
That only works in certain apps
It also only works within a certain period of time after the post was deleted (usually within a few hours). After that even the reply/copy text thing doesn’t work. It takes time to actually delete the thing across every instance it was copied to.
So now I am curious - does Boost hold onto the message for longer than a few hours? If so, it would be a weird “quirk” (feature/bug/whatever) of Boost, rather than a fault with the underlying ActivityPub system that makes the Fediverse run - b/c you can delete a comment, just not instantly, and different clients will respond in varying ways. Things may become more consistent in the future but this will always remain some kind of underlying issue b/c of how the Fediverse works as a disparate collection of instances rather than a unified singular place where every user interacts with the same codebase. :-)
TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
At least on Boost on Android it works. Not sure about other apps since I’ve only used this for Lemmy.Image
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 months ago
Another co-reply to the person I replied to, Kolanaki@yiffit.net (link) said it well imho:
So now I am curious - does Boost hold onto the message for longer than a few hours? If so, it would be a weird “quirk” (feature/bug/whatever) of Boost, rather than a fault with the underlying ActivityPub system that makes the Fediverse run - b/c you can delete a comment, just not instantly, and different clients will respond in varying ways. Things may become more consistent in the future but this will always remain some kind of underlying issue b/c of how the Fediverse works as a disparate collection of instances rather than a unified singular place where every user interacts with the same codebase. :-)