@julian like removing a whole thread from the forum? Remove(object=thread, target=forum)? this seems like something altogether different than removing posts from a thread.

removing threads from a forum is possible but if the thread is owned by the forum then the forum can also delete them.

the part that differs between impls is whether Delete(thing that is a context) should do anything to objects where context = the Delete.object, right? i think it makes the most sense to just orphan them.

trwnh@mastodon.social specifically however, is that you're not deleting the context. Just removing it.

NodeBB has the concept of a context not belonging to an audience (the "uncategorized" pseudo category.) in those specific situations, contexts would be removed from the audience, not deleted.

Lemmy and Piefed don't have these concepts, so they simply delete them. So therein lies some of the confusion I believe.