#activitypub thonk: delivering to a Collection is nonsensical because a Collection could be an actor.
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#activitypub thonk: delivering to a Collection is nonsensical because a Collection could be an actor. but so can a Group
basically you have implicit behavior "the Collection needs to be expanded to its items which are assumed to all be actors" just like a Group might expand to all its members (except the assumption there is a bit stronger, you can generally expect a Group's members to all be individuals?)
whereas something like WAC makes a distinction between agent, agentGroup, agentClass
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#activitypub thonk: delivering to a Collection is nonsensical because a Collection could be an actor. but so can a Group
basically you have implicit behavior "the Collection needs to be expanded to its items which are assumed to all be actors" just like a Group might expand to all its members (except the assumption there is a bit stronger, you can generally expect a Group's members to all be individuals?)
whereas something like WAC makes a distinction between agent, agentGroup, agentClass
i'm not actually sure how something like this could be resolved. clearly there is existing functionality that depends on expanding collections found in the audience addressing properties: specifically, the followers collection, which powers the "followers-only post" feature, which is the primary reason activitypub even got adopted by mastodon in the first place
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