- From: Yuri Volkov <yvolk1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 08:31:43 +0300
- To: public-socialweb@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAC9DQKPVSU1q--WKaEEMDWKnnyxs3Vwyk5w9Mivf98-hL0LDRw@mail.gmail.com>
In short: The #ActivityPub spec's problem is not in that simplistic phrase "users are represented as actors here". The problem is that there is NO technical description of the whole domain model layer: relation between Actors (e.g. Person) and Users of servers. Current version will be interpreted as having one-to-one relation between the two *different* kinds of entities, and that *is* incorrect. And I think that this gap will cause implementations, which will allow neither having multiple User accounts for one Actor on different servers nor (in particular) moving one Person's account between federation instances without losing his/her identity, including historical data. My view is that these features now become key features of a federated social network, when people are searching for better places for their social identities, when servers are being constantly created and shut down... A week ago I posted the bug report with concrete suggestions for a fix to https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/260 Let's fix the spec before its release, please! -- Yuri Volkov, Business applications architect and developer. Developer of AndStatus social networking client for Android.
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