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I don’t actually think it’s safe to say that. I suspect that most people wouldn’t be very concerned about ActivityPub’s “best effort” federated deletion. But without actually polling people, I don’t think that either of these theories holds enough water to call “safe to say.”
Sorry I forgot to address your point - migrating people to a more technical setup would be a challenge in itself, but then informing them that deletion across servers isn't guaranteed would likely give them cold feet.
FWIW, it’s fairly rare for a deletion to not propagate. And I’ve yet to come across a rogue instance intentionally refusing to honor deletions. If we did, our instance would defederate from it.
Good point :)