oh...it was a user (@LilyXY) who's either blocked me, or who disabled their profile, or something else (it's really hard for me to tell exactly), who recommended the book. all I have is my response in which I thanked Lily for the recommendation...but now I can't view the recommendation. blech.
let this be a lesson to me: if I'm supplied a tidbit of information through mastodon or Twitter, _save a copy immediately_
@kara_dreamer @LilyXY Definitely been deleted. Clicking that profile brings up the fail elephant.
@TrollDecker aww, that's too bad :( I wonder where Lily went, and hope they're all right.
@kara_dreamer (Though I still have that recommendation toot on my system >.>)
@TrollDecker oh, weird. was it, in fact, the Phil Hine book?
@TrollDecker @kara_dreamer me too and now something to investigate in how federated account deletions work timing wise
@djsundog @TrollDecker @kara_dreamer I was under the impression that account deletions basically just don't federate at all
@impiaaa @djsundog @kara_dreamer Which strikes me as a bit odd tbh. 😕
@TrollDecker @impiaaa @kara_dreamer yeah, I've no reason to want to cache the deleted accounts of other servers on mine and I doubt they expect it
@impiaaa @TrollDecker @kara_dreamer I get not wanting to DoS every instance with which you federate with deletes. I would be happy with a nightly check-and-purge thing tho. or a single server-to-server AccountDeletion activity or something.
@djsundog @impiaaa @kara_dreamer If I (very vaguely) understand AP, a single deletion request should do it, with the target instance going "*cracks knuckles* OKAY, WHERE THE FUCK ARE ALL THIS USER'S TOOTS?"
@TrollDecker @impiaaa @kara_dreamer that would be what I would expect but does not seem to have happened yet?
ah, think I lucked into finding out which book it was.
https://www.amazon.com/Condensed-Chaos-Introduction-Magic/dp/1935150669