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   洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) (hongminhee@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 12:39:49 JST 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

   #Mastodon sends Create(Question) for the poll, even though the Question itself is an Activity. Does it see Question as a regular Object rather than an Activity?

   #Mastodon #fedidev #ActivityPub

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 19:48:16 JST silverpill

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     @hongminhee Yes. I think this is a good idea, because Question-object can gracefully degrade to a "post" in apps that don't support polls.

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     洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) (hongminhee@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 19:53:14 JST 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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     • silverpill

     @silverpill Ah, make sense. Thanks for answering!

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     洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) (hongminhee@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 20:02:10 JST 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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     • marius

     @mariusor I sometimes feel that the activity–object distinction in the ActivityPub spec is a failed concept in practice. 🤔

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     marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 20:02:11 JST marius

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     @hongminhee I think it's dangerous to think about Activities as distinct from "objects". My intuition tells me that the basic difference between an Activity object and a regular Object is that Activities inform some side-effect on the receiving server/client side. But both types can hold information that can make sense independently.

     Another example to a Question would be a Flag activity that has Content (where a user would put the reason on why they effected the Flag).