With the recent Thulean* comment spam attacks, mods have dutifully deleted the offending comments, but Connect still renders the deleted comments.
Thunder seems to have the same bug
Voyager and Jerboa show the comments as deleted
Examples:
https://startrek.website/post/8228446
I’m not sure whether this is an issue with Connect or with Lemmy. You point out that Thunder has the same bug, and I can confirm that Eternity and Sync do as well. Boost and Summit show the comments as deleted.