@Claire @dansup oh right, well not sure I see the point of that but I suppose the simplest way would be sending out a Hide or Archive activity just like one would send out a Delete, then you can Undo the Hide or Archive later

@Claire @dumpsterqueer @dansup deleting posts would also have unwanted side effects because most people don't understand Undo Delete

ideally this would be handled with something like a collection for your published posts on a profile, like how youtube does "unlisted" (not the same as mastodon "unlisted"), but that won't get understood either

seems the fallback people will have to accept is that current impls may/will continue to show these posts?

@Claire @dumpsterqueer @dansup the question is, a unarchived post preserves the old timestamp? If not, it can be published as new. If preserves, mastodon or gts would not put it in the timeline and they will be visible only when stalking a profile. Maybe masto and gts even reject the create activity because it's too old.