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The founder of Tildes, Deimos, is a former Reddit backend engineer who believes this is a technical issue rather than a case of Reddit purposefully subverting user intentions:
This isn't really a good excuse though. Right to be forgotten doesn't me the right to be forgotten except in a cache loop. Sometimes this stuff is time sensitive.
If you added a 5s delay between deletes, they don't come back. Not a caching issue