CFC: make side effect of Follow activity consistent (Issue #320)

This is a call for consensus to apply an erratum to the ActivityPub 
specification. If there are no objections in the next 14 calendar days, 
I will add this text to the errata for ActivityPub and apply the 
corresponding change to the editor's draft.

More discussion of the issue is available at: 
https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/320

The erratum is as follows:

In section 7.5 "Follow Activity", the second paragraph erroneously 
describes processing requirements for receiving an Accept activity with 
a Follow activity as the object. It describes changing the "followers" 
collection; however, receiving an "Accept" activity over the federation 
protocol would result in a change to the "following" collection. The 
correct behaviour is already described in section 7.6 "Accept Activity". 
One possible correction is to simply remove the second paragraph of 
section 7.5.


Evan

Received on Friday, 29 August 2025 16:55:26 UTC