Emelia 👸🏻
Something that should theoretically be possible is maintaining separate collections of actors to address content to, and software should be able to handle that.
e.g., followers is a collection intrinsically managed by the protocol: Accept(Follow) adds that actor to the collection for your followers. (All follows on the fediverse are really follow requests, no matter what)
silverpill
@thisismissem Yes, mitra makes use of additional "subscribers" collection, but (streams) has a more advanced feature called "lists" that does exactly what you describe:
>Lists : Sometimes referred to as circles or aspects, this lets you define your own groups of related friends and communicate with them as a private group.
A list is a collection of actors, and can be used for addressing
Emelia 👸🏻
Actually, looking closer at @bonfire, I don't think they do use custom collections of actors for addressing like this? I think they're actually maybe unfurling that collection into the addressing fields for the activity itself?
Emelia 👸🏻
Looks like maybe @silverpill's mitra does use these custom collections for addressing?
Emelia 👸🏻
Like why can't I create a family collection or a close friends collection & share activities just with those actors through addressing?
I can also help remote servers by sending Add and Remove activities to indicate that I've updated those collections. (Maybe it'd be Accept(Add)? Or Undo(Accept(Add))? )
Emelia 👸🏻
Would of course require activitypub servers to be aware of these additional collections in order to handle delivery correctly, but this feels like something that should exist but doesn't in mainstream fedi software.
I think only @bonfire implements this maybe?
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@thisismissem @django A link to the latest commit is posted on the top page of the site.
As of the time of this post it is here.
https://github.com/fedibird/mastodon/tree/a7a145781cd24cbcb27db6a2e7c19b29fd99fdf9
Emelia 👸🏻
@django @noellabo looks like Fedibird is currently violating the Mastodon license terms since Mastodon is AGPLv3, so forks *must* release their source code.
django
@thisismissem @bonfire I think @noellabo ‘s fedibird masto fork has had this for a while
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@thisismissem @django Fedibird's implementation is a remnant of the circle feature that was being implemented in Mastodon. Much of the code was implemented by Eugen and Claire, and about half was implemented by me.
Circle is a mechanism that creates a collection of a selection of followers and distributes (publishes) posts to specific accounts without explicitly mentioning them.
Emelia 👸🏻
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@thisismissem @django I see!
Fedibird is in a transitional phase of its codebase, and is currently still based on the intermediate code between Mastodon v3.4.1 and 3.5. It seems that Mastodon was lacking information on mobile at this time. I didn't notice it either.
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