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In the process of testing social media software, I created some accounts, followed myself, and then deleted the instances.

But I'm still "there" among my followers. Hmm. I figured those would disappear, when the server did. I wonder if they will in time, or if they'll just be phantoms, doomed forever to haunt my followers list, since, having no embodiment, they cannot make the choice to unfollow me..?

Sean Tilley
Sean Tilley  
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I think in the cases of most fediverse platforms, deacticated accounts are gradually dropped after a certain amount of time passes. In some cases, this might be to provide some leniency for temporary instance outages.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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Sean is right, at #Friendica we retry unreachable profiles over a six months period, unless we receive an explicit account deletion message. Because a deleted server looks the same to us as a temporarily offline server, we have to be forgiving.
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