SocialWeb Groups from Charles E. Lehner on 2023-03-11 (public-swicg@w3.org from March 2023)

From: Charles E. Lehner <cel@celehner.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:33:57 -0500
To: public-swicg@w3.org
Cc: me@nutomic.com
Message-ID: <20230310233357.0e4f3a12.cel@celehner.com>

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 14:25:57 -0800
Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com> wrote:

> It appears to me that there’s nothing in Activity* that prevents
> those standards to be used for groups. Better to reuse them than to
> invent something new IMHO.

Here is a Group actor type:
  https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Group (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-group)

> However, there is also nothing that explains how to do it.

There is a document describing implementing federated forums using Group actors:
  https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-1b12.md "Group federation FEP" (2022-11-12/2023-02-09) by Felix Ableitner (Cc'd)
  "based on existing group implementations in Lemmy, Friendica, Hubzilla, Lotide and Peertube"
via https://lemmy.ml/comment/400105 (@nutomic@lemmy.ml)

Charles

Received on Saturday, 11 March 2023 04:35:42 UTC