activitypub should have defined a `Reply` activity and the `replies` collection should have contained these activities
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@trwnh they can send an `Add` or `Approve` activity to let the other recipients of the original object know that a new reply has been added.
@trwnh the original author can also add the object to the `thread`, which contains the full reply tree.
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@trwnh the original author can also add the object to the `thread`, which contains the full reply tree.
@evan the only point i'm trying to make here is that a Create is a "notification that someone created something", not a "notification that someone replied". if you have something which is both a reply and a quote and who knows what else, then you are overloading the Create with highly specific introspection and possibly complex boolean logic (Create AND object.inReplyTo NOT (object.tag[*] is Link AND Link.rel = _misskey_quote))
a simple match on the top-level type array could suffice!
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i don't wanna be too much of a crank but i do think that the way that a lot of things have gone over the past decade or so have been more or less a mistake from which we might not ever be able to repay the technical debt
@infinite love ⴳwe might not ever be able to repay the technical debt
I think that's a bit pessimistic.
#ActivityPub today is where HTML was in the early 2000s - underspecified, and everyone did it differently - but we recovered from that, through a concerted standardisation effort and a lot of patience, and I don't see why that can't happen to ActivityPub too. -
@infinite love ⴳ
we might not ever be able to repay the technical debt
I think that's a bit pessimistic.
#ActivityPub today is where HTML was in the early 2000s - underspecified, and everyone did it differently - but we recovered from that, through a concerted standardisation effort and a lot of patience, and I don't see why that can't happen to ActivityPub too.@fentiger what if activitypub is ultimately the wrong path for the web? (see my immediate follow-up about feeds and syndication)
