diff --git a/include/conversation.php b/include/conversation.php
index 5d84be74ca..324b53b5a8 100644
--- a/include/conversation.php
+++ b/include/conversation.php
@@ -433,7 +433,6 @@ These Fields are not added below (yet). They are here to for bug search.
 `item`.`bookmark`,
 `item`.`unseen`,
 `item`.`deleted`,
-`item`.`origin`,
 `item`.`forum_mode`,
 `item`.`mention`,
 `item`.`global`,
@@ -446,7 +445,7 @@ These Fields are not added below (yet). They are here to for bug search.
 		`item`.`uri`, `item`.`thr-parent`, `item`.`parent-uri`, `item`.`content-warning`,
 		`item`.`commented`, `item`.`created`, `item`.`edited`, `item`.`received`,
 		`item`.`verb`, `item`.`object-type`, `item`.`postopts`, `item`.`plink`,
-		`item`.`guid`, `item`.`wall`, `item`.`private`, `item`.`starred`,
+		`item`.`guid`, `item`.`wall`, `item`.`private`, `item`.`starred`, `item`.`origin`,
 		`item`.`title`,	`item`.`body`, `item`.`file`, `item`.`event-id`,
 		`item`.`location`, `item`.`coord`, `item`.`app`, `item`.`attach`,
 		`item`.`rendered-hash`, `item`.`rendered-html`, `item`.`object`,
diff --git a/src/Model/Item.php b/src/Model/Item.php
index ab291a3306..fb3e59eb25 100644
--- a/src/Model/Item.php
+++ b/src/Model/Item.php
@@ -112,15 +112,17 @@ class Item extends BaseObject
 	public static function deleteById($item_id, $priority = PRIORITY_HIGH)
 	{
 		// locate item to be deleted
-		$fields = ['id', 'uid', 'parent', 'parent-uri', 'origin', 'deleted',
-			'file', 'resource-id', 'event-id', 'attach',
+		$fields = ['id', 'uri', 'uid', 'parent', 'parent-uri', 'origin',
+			'deleted', 'file', 'resource-id', 'event-id', 'attach',
 			'verb', 'object-type', 'object', 'target', 'contact-id'];
 		$item = dba::selectFirst('item', $fields, ['id' => $item_id]);
 		if (!DBM::is_result($item)) {
+			logger('Item with ID ' . $item_id . " hasn't been found.", LOGGER_DEBUG);
 			return false;
 		}
 
 		if ($item['deleted']) {
+			logger('Item with ID ' . $item_id . ' has already been deleted.', LOGGER_DEBUG);
 			return false;
 		}
 
@@ -129,8 +131,6 @@ class Item extends BaseObject
 			$parent = ['origin' => false];
 		}
 
-		logger('delete item: ' . $item['id'], LOGGER_DEBUG);
-
 		// clean up categories and tags so they don't end up as orphans
 
 		$matches = false;
@@ -183,16 +183,27 @@ class Item extends BaseObject
 		Term::insertFromFileFieldByItemId($item['id']);
 		self::deleteThread($item['id'], $item['parent-uri']);
 
-		// If it's the parent of a comment thread, kill all the kids
-		if ($item['id'] == $item['parent']) {
-			self::delete(['parent' => $item['parent']], $priority);
+		if (!dba::exists('item', ["`uri` = ? AND `uid` != 0 AND NOT `deleted`", $item['uri']])) {
+			self::delete(['uri' => $item['uri'], 'uid' => 0, 'deleted' => false], $priority);
 		}
 
-		// send the notification upstream/downstream
+		// If it's the parent of a comment thread, kill all the kids
+		if ($item['id'] == $item['parent']) {
+			self::delete(['parent' => $item['parent'], 'deleted' => false], $priority);
+		}
+
+		// Is it our comment and/or our thread?
 		if ($item['origin'] || $parent['origin']) {
+
+			// When we delete the original post we will delete all existing copies on the server as well
+			self::delete(['uri' => $item['uri'], 'deleted' => false], $priority);
+
+			// send the notification upstream/downstream
 			Worker::add(['priority' => $priority, 'dont_fork' => true], "Notifier", "drop", intval($item['id']));
 		}
 
+		logger('Item with ID ' . $item_id . " has been deleted.", LOGGER_DEBUG);
+
 		return true;
 	}
 
@@ -333,6 +344,12 @@ class Item extends BaseObject
 			$item['origin'] = 1;
 			$item['network'] = NETWORK_DFRN;
 			$item['protocol'] = PROTOCOL_DFRN;
+
+			if (is_int($notify)) {
+				$priority = $notify;
+			} else {
+				$priority = PRIORITY_HIGH;
+			}
 		} else {
 			$item['network'] = trim(defaults($item, 'network', NETWORK_PHANTOM));
 		}
@@ -861,7 +878,7 @@ class Item extends BaseObject
 		check_user_notification($current_post);
 
 		if ($notify) {
-			Worker::add(['priority' => PRIORITY_HIGH, 'dont_fork' => true], "Notifier", $notify_type, $current_post);
+			Worker::add(['priority' => $priority, 'dont_fork' => true], "Notifier", $notify_type, $current_post);
 		} elseif (!empty($parent) && $parent['origin']) {
 			Worker::add(['priority' => PRIORITY_HIGH, 'dont_fork' => true], "Notifier", "comment-import", $current_post);
 		}
diff --git a/src/Object/Post.php b/src/Object/Post.php
index 63ab676988..b47bbd69fe 100644
--- a/src/Object/Post.php
+++ b/src/Object/Post.php
@@ -172,13 +172,31 @@ class Post extends BaseObject
 			$dropping = true;
 		}
 
+		$origin = $item['origin'];
+
+		if (!$origin) {
+			/// @todo This shouldn't be done as query here, but better during the data creation.
+			// it is now done here, since during the RC phase we shouldn't make to intense changes.
+			$parent = dba::selectFirst('item', ['origin'], ['id' => $item['parent']]);
+			if (DBM::is_result($parent)) {
+				$origin = $parent['origin'];
+			}
+		}
+
+		// Showing the one or the other text, depending upon if we can only hide it or really delete it.
+		$delete = $origin ? L10n::t('Delete') : L10n::t('Remove from your stream');
+
 		$drop = [
 			'dropping' => $dropping,
 			'pagedrop' => ((Feature::isEnabled($conv->getProfileOwner(), 'multi_delete')) ? $item['pagedrop'] : ''),
 			'select'   => L10n::t('Select'),
-			'delete'   => L10n::t('Remove from your stream'),
+			'delete'   => $delete,
 		];
 
+		if (!local_user()) {
+			$drop = false;
+		}
+
 		$filer = (($conv->getProfileOwner() == local_user() && ($item['uid'] != 0)) ? L10n::t("save to folder") : false);
 
 		$diff_author = !link_compare($item['url'], $item['author-link']);
diff --git a/src/Protocol/DFRN.php b/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
index c41481872a..51ec9ade9b 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
@@ -2719,23 +2719,6 @@ class DFRN
 					Item::distribute($posted_id);
 				}
 
-				$item["id"] = $posted_id;
-
-				$r = q(
-					"SELECT `parent`, `parent-uri` FROM `item` WHERE `id` = %d AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
-					intval($posted_id),
-					intval($importer["importer_uid"])
-				);
-				if (DBM::is_result($r)) {
-					$parent = $r[0]["parent"];
-					$parent_uri = $r[0]["parent-uri"];
-				}
-
-				if ($posted_id && $parent && ($entrytype == DFRN::REPLY_RC)) {
-					logger("Notifying followers about comment ".$posted_id, LOGGER_DEBUG);
-					Worker::add(PRIORITY_HIGH, "Notifier", "comment-import", $posted_id);
-				}
-
 				return true;
 			}
 		} else { // $entrytype == DFRN::TOP_LEVEL
@@ -2837,14 +2820,6 @@ class DFRN
 		}
 
 		Item::deleteById($item["id"]);
-
-		if ($entrytype != DFRN::TOP_LEVEL) {
-			// if this is a relayed delete, propagate it to other recipients
-			if ($entrytype == DFRN::REPLY_RC) {
-				logger("Notifying followers about deletion of post " . $item["id"], LOGGER_DEBUG);
-				Worker::add(PRIORITY_HIGH, "Notifier", "drop", $item["id"]);
-			}
-		}
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/src/Protocol/Diaspora.php b/src/Protocol/Diaspora.php
index adb1e8cbfa..bae2eb6a2a 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/Diaspora.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/Diaspora.php
@@ -2868,12 +2868,6 @@ class Diaspora
 			Item::deleteById($item["id"]);
 
 			logger("Deleted target ".$target_guid." (".$item["id"].") from user ".$item["uid"]." parent: ".$item["parent"], LOGGER_DEBUG);
-
-			// Now check if the retraction needs to be relayed by us
-			if ($parent["origin"]) {
-				// notify others
-				Worker::add(PRIORITY_HIGH, "Notifier", "drop", $item["id"]);
-			}
 		}
 
 		return true;
diff --git a/src/Protocol/Feed.php b/src/Protocol/Feed.php
index 191070a2c5..c04e40b5e5 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/Feed.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/Feed.php
@@ -430,6 +430,9 @@ class Feed {
 					$item['guid'] = Item::guidFromUri($orig_plink, $a->get_hostname());
 					unset($item['uri']);
 					unset($item['parent-uri']);
+
+					// Set the delivery priority for "remote self" to "medium"
+					$notify = PRIORITY_MEDIUM;
 				}
 
 				$id = Item::insert($item, false, $notify);
diff --git a/src/Worker/Cron.php b/src/Worker/Cron.php
index e523f75118..867a981748 100644
--- a/src/Worker/Cron.php
+++ b/src/Worker/Cron.php
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ Class Cron {
 		$d1 = Config::get('system', 'last_expire_day');
 		$d2 = intval(DateTimeFormat::utcNow('d'));
 
+		// Daily cron calls
 		if ($d2 != intval($d1)) {
 
 			Worker::add(PRIORITY_LOW, "CronJobs", "update_contact_birthdays");
@@ -90,13 +91,22 @@ Class Cron {
 
 			Worker::add(PRIORITY_LOW, "CronJobs", "update_photo_albums");
 
-			// Delete all done workerqueue entries
-			dba::delete('workerqueue', ['`done` AND `executed` < UTC_TIMESTAMP() - INTERVAL 12 HOUR']);
-
 			// check upstream version?
 			Worker::add(PRIORITY_LOW, 'CheckVersion');
 		}
 
+		// Hourly cron calls
+		if (Config::get('system', 'last_cron_hourly', 0) + 3600 < time()) {
+
+			// Delete all done workerqueue entries
+			dba::delete('workerqueue', ['`done` AND `executed` < UTC_TIMESTAMP() - INTERVAL 1 HOUR']);
+
+			// Optimizing this table only last seconds
+			dba::e("OPTIMIZE TABLE `workerqueue`");
+
+			Config::set('system', 'last_cron_hourly', time());
+		}
+
 		// Poll contacts
 		self::pollContacts($parameter, $generation);