as someone who has tombstoned about 3 Mastodon instances already, what usually happens is the posts kinda stick around in the collective memory of whatever instance interacted with it.

This is why I make a point of doing a u-in-reply-to block so I can at least have a contextual excerpt to the post saved locally. When you’re gone from ActivityPub, you’re 👋🏾ｇｏｎｅ.