I created multiple blogs to test imports. When I was done, I deleted them and created a new one to get rid of all test posts.
However, the timeline at Micro.blog - @rickardlindberg still seems to show some old posts? For example this one:
January 2024 Update rickardlindberg-test.micro.blog
Shouldn’t they have been deleted?
I also had a test blog with the same name as my current one, so I’m a bit hesitant to click remove in the timeline as it might also remove the post on the current blog.
Hej! Even if it’s neatly integrated, your Micro.blog timeline and your hosted blog really are two separate things. The timeline shows posts from one or more web feeds (RSS or JSON feeds).
You can, for example, add a YouTube RSS feed from another person’s channel, and their videos will start to show up on your Micro.blog timeline. Removing a one of those video posts from your timeline won’t delete the original YouTube video, though.
The same is true for clicking remove in the timeline for one of your own blog posts; it won’t delete the original blog post.
This also means that if you keep the original blog post around, it will soon reappear in the timeline the next time the web feed is imported. See also my earlier reply here for additional context.
Update: This turned out the be a lie, read on…
Thanks for the explanation.
The title of the remove link says this:
Remove this post from all Micro.blog timelines. For Micro.blog-hosted blogs, will also delete the post from your site.
It makes be believe that the post will actually be removed?
Huh, that’s news to me. Interesting! It might be because I’ve self-hosted my blog before and I haven’t noticed this behavior. Thanks for correcting me.
This is still confusing and I’d like to improve it. If you delete a blog post from your blog and it doesn’t remove it from the timeline, you will need to go to the timeline and click the Remove button to remove it there as well.
Here are some more findings after experimenting a bit.
I just tried to delete all posts from the timeline that were created during my import.
Some of them referred to rickardlindberg-*.micro.blog. Others to just rickardlindberg.micro.blog.
I assumed that deleting the ones referring to rickardlindberg.micro.blog would also delete the blog post. But they seemed to stay.
Perhaps because because I since switched to my own domain.
After clearing the timeline of lingering posts, I re-built my site, and now the timeline is once again populated with my previously imported posts. But this time with a link to my domain. This is what I expected to happen.