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   Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 23:05:56 JST Matthias Pfefferle

   @julian in the WordPress space, visibility and post-states might change quite often in the publish process. so I thought a soft-delete might be nice to map a "from published back to draft" use case. but mastodon does not respect the update when the post will be republished.

   how do you handle that atm. or do you simply live with it!?

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     Julian Fietkau (julian@fietkau.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 00:23:47 JST Julian Fietkau

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     @pfefferle @julian@activitypub.space FWIW, the way I handle this in @encyclia is to edit the post content to something to the effect of “This content is no longer available” instead of actually deleting the object. Mastodon (and other) servers may let people see what used to be there if they dig into the version history, but for the type of content Encyclia touches, this is generally not much of a problem.

     But if you want to push for better `Undo(Delete)` support in the ecosystem, you have my axe! 🪓

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 00:24:22 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Julian Fietkau
     • Encyclia

     @julian@fietkau.social @julian@activitypub.space @encyclia that is what is the plugin is currently doing, but this is also something that users find confusing!