Something that should theoretically be possible is maintaining separate collections of actors to address content to, and software should be able to handle that.
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@thisismissem brb making more accounts to fave this harder
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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
Actually, looking closer at @bonfire, I don't think they do use custom collections of actors for addressing like this? I think they're actually maybe unfurling that collection into the addressing fields for the activity itself?
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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
Looks like maybe @silverpill's mitra does use these custom collections for addressing?
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@thisismissem Yes, mitra makes use of additional "subscribers" collection, but (streams) has a more advanced feature called "lists" that does exactly what you describe:
>Lists : Sometimes referred to as circles or aspects, this lets you define your own groups of related friends and communicate with them as a private group.
A list is a collection of actors, and can be used for addressing
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I've seen some refer to a MacGirvin (hubzilla and others) idea or implementation of some sort of collection (sorry, no links on only vague recollections)
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Jesse Karmanireplied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem I have also implemented this in my fork of mastodon as βcirclesβ (originally cherry-picked from fedibird but maintained by me through all the recent releases). It also unfurls the collection into the address field. For frequency I think this is the right approach because all accounts on the server are private and I donβt want to leak the contents of those collections to other people or servers
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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Jesse Karmani last edited by
@jesseplusplus yeah, I wanna see us get away from needing to unfold the collection in addressing
For addressing leaking we could use reply forwarding, "I can't post to collection, I can signal my intent but I need the collection owner's server to relay my message to members of that collection
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Jesse Karmanireplied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem circling back on this, would FEP 7888 be needed as well? Or does mastodon basically already do this? I see mention of mastodon having a conversion context already in the discussion on that fep
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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Jesse Karmani last edited by
@jesseplusplus mastodon doesn't support addressing arbitrary collections
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Jesse Karmanireplied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem gotcha, thanks