# ActivityPub Plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** experimental, activitypub\
**Created:** [May 31, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794 "2023-05-31T17:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/462 "2025-06-18T06:34:28Z")

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Hey @patrickemin, thanks for trying out the plugin and I’m glad it’s working for you, and that it makes sense. That’s nice to hear 🙂

> [@patrickemin](#):
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> Naturally, this post went into the approval queue. I approved it, and the post was published in the category. However, it was never picked up by ActivityPub and published on Mastodon as I believe it should have been.

Yes, this is expected behaviour. We don’t auto-publish posts on approval. As @Jagster notes, you can use the activity pub topic actions to manually publish a topic and its posts after approval. We may add a setting to auto-publish posts after approval. Some folks may still want to do that manually as people use the approval queue for different reasons.

> [@patrickemin](#):
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> I also have a related question: uncertain about what was happening, I published a test post myself as an administrator, and there was no problem. After five minutes, it was posted on Mastodon, but I was unable to delete it from Mastodon. I suppose this is because it didn’t go to my main account but to an account linked to one of the actors. It seems impossible for me to control these actor-linked accounts on Mastodon, but that is more of a Mastodon-specific question.

Yes, this is also expected. When a post is federated, the “actor” that controls it is the actor that federated it. You won’t be able to delete it using your mastodon account. You need to delete it on Discourse itself. We then tell mastodon to delete it there too.

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