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[–] mmmac@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Could be, but it's more likely that the delete gets put into a message queue and gets processed when the deletion service can handle it. These large deletions are computationally expensive.

Its similar to why the exports take so long to process