*This is a spin-off discussion from today's ForumWG meeting*
During today's ForumWG meeting an interesting side discussion cropped up regarding what constitutes an Actor, and whether other object types could be considered Actor-like.
ActivityStreams defines an Actor as being one of five types:
<li>Application</li>
<li>Group</li>
<li>Organization</li>
<li>Person</li>
<li>Service</li>
However, a looser definition of an Actor could simply be "if the resolved object contains an inbox and an outbox".
Such a definition opens up the possibility of having lots of things be followable, perhaps without direct user interaction. This was one possibility outlined by Chris Moser (npub1yns…57q2)
infinite love ⴳ (npub1t5c…ppw4) also mentioned that Mastodon does not consider an object as being an actor unless it is one of those five types.
Dmitri | 🇺🇦 (npub1a72…66ak) noted that this was a topic brought up at a previous AP issue triage meeting. Could you provide a summary?
Also cc Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (npub1764…nuj0) for his thoughts.
julian
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2024-06-06 20:17:26 UTC
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