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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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
Would of course require activitypub servers to be aware of these additional collections in order to handle delivery correctly, but this feels like something that should exist but doesn't in mainstream fedi software.
I think only @bonfire implements this maybe?
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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