@Elizafox yup, this is totally correct. I was actually confused by the delete messages that I was getting at the start - didn't realise there was even provision for it in the protocol. It's probably useful to think of it more as a fix for "oops I made a typo" than "oops I posted something sensitive".
@deoxxa @elizafox Also worth noting GS doesn't properly handle delete requests from Mastodon and vice versa.
@archaeme @Elizafox yeah, it's tricky. I'm yet to read about the logic involved there. Presumably it's just "purge object with id ...", but there's a bunch of validation you'd want to do around that. Understandable that it might be a bit flimsy between different implementations.