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Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 04:58:20 JST Alex Gleason

All JSON data is pretty much one of:

- Entity: object with an "id" key
- Document: object without an "id" key
- An array of Entity or array of Document

ActivityPub, Nostr, and Mastodon API all use entities for their main data types. The Instance endpoint on Mastodon is an example of a Document.

I acknowledge that JSON-LD exists, but "Entities & Documents" as I call it is the human standard for JSON data. It's just what people do when a consortium doesn't tell them anything.

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  Ako Suminoe :njp: (realakosuminoe@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 05:07:25 JST Ako Suminoe :njp:
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  @alex Is a document supposed to be unkeyed altogether or just lacking of a specific key called "id"?
  
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  Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 05:07:25 JST Alex Gleason
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  @RealAkoSuminoe I like this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity#In_computer_science
  
  > In computer science, an entity is an object that has an identity, which is independent of the changes of its attributes.
  
  If it has an id field that just isn't called "id", I would still consider it an entity. I would just modify the object to rename the id field before processing it.
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    An entity is something that exists as itself, as a subject or as an object, actually or potentially, concretely or abstractly, physically or not. It does not need to be of material existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are usually regarded as entities. In general, there is also no presumption that an entity is animate, or present. The term is broad in scope and may refer to animals; natural features such as mountains; inanimate objects such as tables; numbers or sets as symbols written on a paper; human contrivances such as laws, corporations and academic disciplines; or supernatural beings such as gods and spirits. The adjectival form is entitative. Etymology The word entity is derived from the Latin entitas, which in turn derives from the Latin ens meaning "being" or "existing" (compare English essence). Entity may hence literally be taken to mean "thing which exists". In philosophy Ontology is the study of concepts of...
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  verita84 :Debian_logo: :firefox: :bing: :android: (verita84@poster.place)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 05:08:28 JST verita84 :Debian_logo: :firefox: :bing: :android:
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  Real programmers use undocumented code
  
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  victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 05:08:28 JST victor
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  @verita84 @alex @RealAkoSuminoe Good code is self-documenting (what, you can't understand it? It's not because of my lack of comments, the code itself is the comments, get good noob!"
  
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