A question for the #Mastodon admins among you:

Let's say I have two public posts, A and B, on the same instance, by different authors, and B is a reply to A.

After replying, A gets deleted.

Is there a way to prove with publicly available information that B was a reply to A?

Using B's URL and appending ".json", it no longer has an "inReplyTo" field, only a "context" URL with 1 item (B).

Is there a non-public way for the instance admin, via web interface or database dump?

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