Anon posts can appear in fediverse feed

[ejheil]

Describe the bug

When a blog post has been made anon, it is still visible to subscribers in the fediverse (but not on the site itself)

Steps to reproduce (if necessary)

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Post to a blog.
2. The post is now visible in subscribers' fediverse feeds
3. Change post to anonymous
4. The post does not go away from subscribers' fediverse feeds. Though if they click through to see it they can.
5. How to resolve: change the post back to a blog post, then delete. (I have not investigated whether or not you can resolve it by just deleting the anonymous post directly, because if it doesn't work, I don't want that anonymous post stuck in the fediverse.

Expected behavior

The same thing that happened after it was actually deleted: it should disappear from the fediverse.

Application configuration

Write.as casual account (edh)

[thebaer]

Thanks for reporting this -- definitely something we want to fix. I confirmed that the post isn't removed from the fediverse when it's deleted as an anonymous post.

As I mention in this task, sending out a Delete activity upon the post being moved from a blog to Draft/Anonymous would fix this. But then we're unable to later federate the post again if someone moves it back to the same blog.

We'll need to figure out what Mastodon, Pleroma, etc. need in order to accept that post again in the case of re-federating it. I assume something like a new ID might work, but I'm not sure if there's an easier solution that would involve fewer changes on our end.