@trwnh@socialhub.activitypub.rocks said in Handling "410 Gone" when retrieving an actor:
You could do what Reddit does and just leave the posts up but pointing to a tombstone user. If you've ever seen a post attributed to [deleted] then you know what I'm talking about.
Yes, this makes sense. It's coming into clearer focus why account and content deletions are so noisy in ActivityPub, since each deletion of a user's content needs to be federated before the account can be deleted.
In absence of anything more explicit (like your aforementioned DeleteAllCreatedObjects), that's all we have to explicitly signal full account and content deletion.
I think we'll go ahead with that. NodeBB already does display something like [deleted] (we show "A Former User"), and we also save the old user id as a reference in case it needs to be cleaned up.
That'll work, thank you for your input a!