Feature Request: Option to set the "Federate" setting to Do Not Federate by default when editing existing unfederated posts

[VirtualWolf]

What

I'd like an option to set the "Federate" setting when editing posts to be set to "Do Not Federate" by default if that post hasn't already been federated before.

Why

I have over 20 years of blog posts, a lot of them imported from my old LiveJournal, and to this day I still occasionally come across things like broken links that need fixing, egregious spelling errors that I didn't notice at the time, and so on. On multiple occasions since installing the ActivityPub plugin I've edited these old posts and forgotten that the "Federate" option is turned on by default, and so end up publishing a post from like 15 years ago to my blog's fediverse account.

It would be nice if I didn't constantly need to remember this and I could just have the Federate option turned off by default.

How

For existing posts that have already been federated and are being edited, those would want to default to the "Federate" option being on, this feature request is just for existing posts being edited that have never been federated before.

An additional thought I had, I don't know much about the internals of how Wordpress works so I'm not sure if you can distinguish between a new post versus editing an existing one, but if so it'd be neat if some sort of "This post will be federated" prepublish check could be shown for new posts.