Re: Remixing and Aggregating Task Force

This is a great question! I actually don't remember how RSS or Atom 
handle aggregation -- for example, if the items in the feeds keep their 
original IDs or if they get new IDs. ISTR some strangeness around this.

One work item for the group might be to investigate that topic and draw 
lessons from it.

Evan

On 2025-06-06 11:13 a.m., Bob Wyman wrote:
> How would ActivityPub/ActivityStreams aggregation be different from 
> WebSub (PubSubHubbub)? If different, other than using json rather than 
> Atom or RSS, why would it be different?
>
> bob wyman
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:
>
>     We have a few projects in the Fediverse that are doing remixing
>     and aggregating content and other activities from other Actors.
>     Two good examples are Surf and Channel.org.
>
>     I think this is an interesting enough pattern that we should open
>     up a Task Force at the SocialCG to investigate standardizing some
>     of these features. Important questions to ask are:
>
>       * How should an aggregated feed appear on the Fediverse? Is it
>         just another Actor that Announces activities and content that
>         meet its requirements? Or is there another structure?
>       * How do we handle ordering of feeds? Some feeds might not be
>         reverse chronologically ordered, but use some other
>         algorithmic ordering.
>       * How can feeds be transparent about what the sources are?
>         Actors, search terms, hashtags, etc. What is coming into this
>         feed? Can consumers inspect the sources?
>       * Is the feed replicable elsewhere?
>
>     Chairs, I'd like to propose an agenda item to discuss this
>     possibility at the next CG meeting.
>
>     Evan
>