I found a way to retrieve the text of comments deleted by user or mod. I don't think it is an issue of federated instances not respecting the deletion.

Is it a bug?

Or is "deleting" always really just "hiding"?

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Reddit itself used to not archive previous edits of comments, which is why this was recommended. Whether scraping or mirroring services don't depends on the service I would assume.