One of my favourite social platforms that I've used over the last couple of decades is The List App. It was a great authoring experience and a great community.
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It turns out that lists are great for so many things: reviews of restaurants with a common theme; best-of movies, tv shows, snacks; writing poetry; telling stories. The List App was a really personal and connected app.
I wonder a bit at how to best replicate that experience on the Fediverse with ActivityPub. I can see a few different representations:
- An Article with an <ul> or <ol> or <dl> in the content. Pretty usable, but doesn't let the individual list items be individually liked or shared. Maybe not that important, The List App didn't let you do that either.
- A thread of Note objects; however many needed to introduce the list, then one note per item, then some more to close it.
That gives some atomicity, but the representation is all wrong. Item 4 in a list isn't a reply to item 3; it's just the next item of the same group.
- Another option would be a
CollectionorOrderedCollection. Any kind of intro content could be in thesummaryfor the collection, and each item in the list could be in theitemsproperty. One reason I like this is you could do different object types for the list items, likeImageorVideo.
I think my problem with this representation is that it's what I've always expected photo albums or similar structures would be like. A list is a little different.
@evan
A set of items with labels/hashtags could do this maybe ? Each item (e.g. a review of a Chinese Seafood restaurant in Brussels) is labeled ( #chinese #restaurant #seafood #brussels) and then with a cross-search people can build their own list of Chinese restaurants in Brussels, or a list of seafood restaurants in Belgium, etc., like, a database of labeled items ? I'm afraid what I say is obvious or stupid but, well...
A set of items with labels/hashtags could do this maybe ? Each item (e.g. a review of a Chinese Seafood restaurant in Brussels) is labeled ( #chinese #restaurant #seafood #brussels) and then with a cross-search people can build their own list of Chinese restaurants in Brussels, or a list of seafood restaurants in Belgium, etc., like, a database of labeled items ? I'm afraid what I say is obvious or stupid but, well...
- Probably the best representation would be a new type,
List, that maybe multitypes withCollectionorOrderedCollection. That makes it distinct from other collections, but allows a fallback to their representation.
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