@julian

> collection containing an outbox

this is something i want to write about as well, but I'm not sure if it should be a separate FEP. probably it will be a separate FEP centered around Collection-Actors which recommends putting objects in the Collection and activities in the Actor's outbox. not sure what to call it exactly, but "collection-actor" is the provisional name for the idea.

@jesseplusplus @silverpill

@trwnh @jesseplusplus @julian I'm also working on a FEP, it is based on Conversation Containers and FEP-7888: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/171b/fep-171b.md

Still not sure about outbox and collection-actor thing. I'll try to implement Conversation Containers and obtain an informed opinion

@silverpill@mitra.social maybe we can press @helge@mymath.rocks into service and discover what happens when instances send an Array type instead of a string.

@julian @silverpill @helge that would be useful information to have but you don’t actually need to make collection-actors into multityped objects, although it would be useful to define and multitype against some type(s) that described how the actor operates. But for now it can just be a Collection with inbox+outbox+followers. Later it can be a [Collection, Conversation, Context, Whatever]

@julian To expand on that last bit:

- Collection = an AS2 Collection. (implied to have properties like items or first/last)
- Conversation = specifically contains objects with `content` (these contentful objects represent “posts”)
- Context = an `attributedTo` actor will Add objects that it encounters where `context` points to the current object (can be manually managed or auto or even self managed)
- Whatever = some extension type for some other use case

cc @silverpill