I’m still not entirely sure how all the coding about the federation works, but if you try viewing a different mander account through your own instance (eg https://programming.dev/u/Sal@mander.xyz) you can still see the account, whereas the fossilesque page says deleted.
You can check through other instances if you’re curious. Like I said I don’t know much about fedi coding but when a user (or post) is gone on .zip and others I’ve seen it doesn’t say deleted it just gives an error page. Sal’s page is still visible but there’s an error for fossilesque.
However the old posts that she started are still around. I think that points toward her acct being gone because if she’d deleted the posts themselves they wouldn’t be accessible. Here’s one through my instance (I think it’s one of the last ones she posted in science memes):
Still down, and the fossilesque account that was one of the most prolific posters appears to be deleted.
How would you know if it’s deleted, if the server is down?
I’m still not entirely sure how all the coding about the federation works, but if you try viewing a different mander account through your own instance (eg https://programming.dev/u/Sal@mander.xyz) you can still see the account, whereas the fossilesque page says deleted.
Does it actually say deleted? Since my instance does not have a cached copy of Sal’s profile it shows an error when I try to view his.
You can check through other instances if you’re curious. Like I said I don’t know much about fedi coding but when a user (or post) is gone on .zip and others I’ve seen it doesn’t say deleted it just gives an error page. Sal’s page is still visible but there’s an error for fossilesque.
https://programming.dev/u/Sal@mander.xyz
https://programming.dev/u/fossilesque@mander.xyz
However the old posts that she started are still around. I think that points toward her acct being gone because if she’d deleted the posts themselves they wouldn’t be accessible. Here’s one through my instance (I think it’s one of the last ones she posted in science memes):
https://lemmy.zip/post/67706961
Oh, that’s disheartening.