The answer is federation. Each post, each comment is federated, i.e. copied by the other federated instances. They replied to the copy of your comment on their instance. While you had deleted it in the meantime, their instance didn’t know about the deletion yet.
Also possible, but when I tried to reply to a post that has been deleted in the meantime, while phrasing my comment, on my instance as well, I’ve got an error. So I assume it’s either due to the delay or due to Lemmy - Mastondon inconsistencies.
The answer is federation. Each post, each comment is federated, i.e. copied by the other federated instances. They replied to the copy of your comment on their instance. While you had deleted it in the meantime, their instance didn’t know about the deletion yet.
@Successful_Try543 @kebab thanks good to know 😃 my thought was maybe I just replied in the second before he deleted it.
Also possible, but when I tried to reply to a post that has been deleted in the meantime, while phrasing my comment, on my instance as well, I’ve got an error. So I assume it’s either due to the delay or due to Lemmy - Mastondon inconsistencies.