[IndieWeb -> BS] Confirming how deletions work

[negatethis]

Per the docs, this is how you delete a post from the web side:

How do I delete a post?

First, delete the post on your web site, so that HTTP requests for it return 410 Gone or 404 Not Found. Then, send another webmention to Bridgy Fed for it. Bridgy Fed will refetch the post, see that it's gone, and send an Delete activity for it to the fediverse.

This only specifies deletion propagating to the fediverse, but not to Bluesky. I've created a new post on my website and confirmed it was created on the Bluesky side: https://bsky.app/profile/negatethis.com/post/3mdiqihiq6ot2. I then deleted that post on my website and successfully sent a webmention to Bridgy Fed. However, the post is still available on Bluesky. I just want to confirm whether this is the correct flow for deletion on the Bluesky side, or if it's possible at all.

[snarfed]

Hey, sorry for the confusion here! Deletes on Bluesky are definitely supported. I'll update the docs to mention that.

When you created your post, you sent a webmention with source https://negatethis.com/posts/testing, which redirected to https://negatethis.com/posts/testing/, which is how we stored the post.

When you deleted it, you sent webmentions with source https://negatethis.com/posts/testing/index.html. We're pretty careful about URLs, we don't normalize eg /index.html to /, so we didn't find it. If you resend a webmention with source https://negatethis.com/posts/testing/, that should delete it.

[negatethis]

Perfect, I've just resent a webmention with https://negatethis.com/posts/testing/ as the source. I'll see if the deletion is propagated and update my custom SSG to send the correct source every time.

[negatethis]

I resent a webmention with the correct source last night and the post did disappear from my Bridgy Fed page: https://fed.brid.gy/web/negatethis.com.

However, the post is still up on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/negatethis.com/post/3mdiqihiq6ot2

Just to make sure there wasn't a mistake from my code, I resent the webmention via curl and https://mention-tech.appspot.com/. Both returned successful status codes, but the delete wasn't propagated to Bluesky.

I'm not sure if it propagated to the Fediverse, I don't have an account to check with.

[snarfed]

Sorry for the trouble here, and thanks for your patience! Looks like the second part of this was a bug on our end. I've fixed it (8063bae) and tested that re-sending the webmention(s) you sent successfully deleted the post on Bluesky.

Thank you for reporting! Please let me know if you hit any other problems.

[negatethis]

No need to apologize. The least I can be is patient when you're providing this service for free. I can confirm that the Bluesky posts have been deleted and I've edited my custom SSG's code to send the correct source in the future. Thank you for the help!