I can’t say I’ve ever seen one.
Are they already trying to enshittify the Fediverse experience with this delay?
Sounds like simply shitty programming if they need a 15 minutes delay in order to give users the possibility to edit their posts … editing posts is possible in lots of fediverse software without such hacks lol
But it’s cooperative, as long there is 1 instance that doesn’t respect delete requests, they can’t provide the ability to delete a mistakenly posted picture that actually works.
15 minutes is excessive though. 3 minutes should be enough.
Sounds like EEE to me, but it seems a little too early in the cycle for that.
Eastern Equine Encephalitis?
Maybe the majority of fediverse instances should just defederate from Threads. Then they can take all the time they want to broadcast their shitty posts.
https://fedipact.veganism.social/
Lemmy.world is one of the few still federated
I can see why they’d do that tbh. Being able to delete something posted in error is something that may not be guaranteed in the Fediverse. Once it’s out there, you’re relying on others to delete that cute picture of your cat with your shrivelled up little winkie clearly visible in the reflection of your TV.
Let’s not kid ourselves about threads properly deleting posts though. Their database probably just goes DELETED: True;
a fixed 15-minute* delay
I’m not a native speaker… interesting, why would that be phrased that way? It’s still multiple minutes?
Generally, when describing a thing, the unit is written as singular. “15 minute delay”, “10 foot pole”, “5 gallon bucket”. When referring the unit itself though, it would be plural: “a delay of 15 minutes”, “the pole is 10 feet long”, “this bucket holds 5 gallons”. I’m sure there’s a more precise way to say this, but hopefully it helps.
The delay is singular. So one delay for fifteen minutes is a fifteen minute delay.
