Looking at the code of one fediverse implementation, I find it funny how there is a flag on a user for whether they are "deleted", when that is very much not what deleted means (unless, it's there for tombstoning*).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(data_store)
Tombstoning is where you have an "empty record" which exists for the purpose of propagating the delete across a distributed system.