<![CDATA[Catodon federating deletes of objects it doesn't own]]>Hey @panos@catodon.rocks, now that I'm tracking errors encountered, I've got a bit more visibility into things that normally would've just been caught and ignored.

Today I received a Delete(Object) from Catodon associated with a user from catodon.rocks.

Two things:

  1. Its object referenced an item outside of catodon.rocks, and so it failed NodeBB's actor-object match check. Normally people can't delete other peoples' posts, so I think this might be a mistake?

  2. The activity's audience matches the activity's attributedTo. While you're certainly allowed to put anything you want in there, threadiverse software uses it to point to a group actor. Wondering if this was intentional.

Thanks!

]]>https://citiverse.it/topic/b95db6a6-8887-4e4d-9657-dc9601b84c9e/catodon-federating-deletes-of-objects-it-doesn-t-ownRSS for NodeSat, 11 Jul 2026 18:37:44 GMTWed, 22 Apr 2026 17:16:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Catodon federating deletes of objects it doesn't own on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:06:01 GMT]]>@panos@catodon.rocks Thanks.

  1. Fixed
  2. Defer, not sure how to handle at the moment.
  3. N/A, when an Announce(Create) arrives, NodeBB makes a call out to retrieve the object again, so if a Create arrives after a Delete, it won't be added.
    • We call the low level delete because it's an internal deletion. We don't need to call the api delete because that federates activities out. I don't expect your LLM to know this.
  4. Fixed.
  5. Fixed.
  6. Fixed.
]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1794https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1794Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:06:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Catodon federating deletes of objects it doesn't own on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:59:37 GMT]]>@panos@catodon.rocks handling of Announce(Delete) is merged (but untested across real 1b12 generators)... do you mind doing a quick test?

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1791https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1791Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:59:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Catodon federating deletes of objects it doesn't own on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:10:20 GMT]]>@panos@catodon.rocks sure thing. I thought we did handle it but it's been awhile. I'll take a look!

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1784https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1784Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:10:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Catodon federating deletes of objects it doesn't own on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:26:20 GMT]]>@panos@catodon.rocks I was wondering if maybe there was some group-actor shenanigans going on 🙂

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1783https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1783Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:26:20 GMT