@pfefferle@mastodon.social sure, because 4f05 assumes that deletion activity is a request to refresh the cache, a simple Update would suffice to bring the object back from Tombstone status.
That said if you issued an Undo(Delete) that'd probably work too, and would do the same thing.
Proposed changes:
Implements soft delete functionality (FEP-4f05) that sends a Delete activity when a federated post's visibility is changed to "local" or "private". This al...
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Just checked the spec for a Tombstone... Seems to be pretty straight forward ☺️
#rtfm
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •julian
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Re: Hey @julian I am working on implementing a Soft Delete.
@pfefferle@mastodon.social sure, because 4f05 assumes that deletion activity is a request to refresh the cache, a simple
Updatewould suffice to bring the object back from Tombstone status.That said if you issued an Undo(Delete) that'd probably work too, and would do the same thing.
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to julian • • •Add soft delete support with Tombstone objects by pfefferle · Pull Request #2824 · Automattic/wordpress-activitypub
GitHubmarius
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •is there a reason why you aren't looking first at the official specification?
The "soft-delete" behaviour is the actual spec conformant mechanism for deletion in ActivityPub.
What @julian describes as "hard-delete" in this FEP exists in the spec only as a side-effect of Undo-ing the original Create activity.
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to marius • • •@mariusor mastodon.social/@pfefferle/115…
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