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coming soon: fep-9988 "Federated Forums" -- this should get the #forasphere conversation started...

update: fep-9988 is on hold for now, as it is quickly morphing and evolving. due to nebulous boundaries of the concept of a "forum". it's seeming more like a rough and general conformance profile for general-purpose social networking, and the only real difference between current mastodon and this stuff is that mastodon doesn't have explicit conversations or threads.

so anyway: fep-8007 "A conformance profile for social networking services" is what i'm working on for now.

fep-8007 tries to formalize and properly define assumptions and primitives and then map them to social networking features. it's gonna be similar to docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/act but not specific to mastodon -- deference will be given to other implementations, the FEP is a broad survey, descriptive but also somewhat prescriptive of what *ought* to be done. the goal is a set of normative requirements that concisely bounds behavior such that we don't have the current situation of no one being conformant

docs.joinmastodon.orgActivityPub - Mastodon documentationA decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format and JSON-LD.

of course conformance to this profile still requires collaboration and alignment from implementers, so i'm hoping to also pursue this in parallel with SocialCG