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Instance or engine deleting local copy of federated/external communities no longer available? (thebrainbin.org)
submitted 7 months ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/askTheBrainBin@thebrainbin.org
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Tried making a post to !videogames@piefed.social, but when I sent it, both the page that would load next (the post's page) and the magazine's other pages I could previously access, started throwing a 404 error.

The community in the original instance appears unreachable, and on Mbin, either through different IPs from a VPN or accessing while logged off in private window, m/videogames@piefed.social/* pages remain inaccessible.

Also can tell The/Brain/Bin tried sending the post before nuking everything because it still appears on an instance that doesn't delete unreachable posts.

Is this a glitch, or an expected behavior?

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[โ€“] BentiGorlich@thebrainbin.org 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think what happened here is the following:

  1. You tried sending a post to an inactive and therefore not fetched for a while magazine
  2. The server updates the remote magazine actor so it has a fresh copy
  3. Notices the magazine is gone on the other server and therefore deleting it locally
  4. As a result your post was also deleted

I don't know if this is the best behavior... But it is built this way at the moment.... Maybe @melroy@kbin.melroy.org has an opinion as well? Maybe also post this to !mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de

[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 0 points 7 months ago

I see. On posting in the meta community, didn't know at what point the situation happened, so started asking for the most immediate point.