@JollyRoberts How could you describe a relationship between a Feed and its owner?

silverpill@mitra.social

@JollyRoberts How could you describe a relationship between a Feed and its owner? In Fediverse, attributedTo is often used to specify an actor that created the object. If your use case is different, a new property may be preferable.

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jollyroberts@socialhub.activitypub.rocks

So at the moment we have the human who makes the feed as the only item in the attributedTo property.

Example feed on piefed.social:

{ "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1" ], "attributedTo": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse/moderators", "endpoints": { "sharedInbox": "https://piefed.social/inbox" }, "followers": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse/followers", "following": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse/following", "id": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse", "inbox": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse/inbox", "moderators": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse/moderators", "name": "Fediverse", "outbox": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse/outbox", "preferredUsername": "fediverse", "publicKey": { "id": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse#main-key", "owner": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse", "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----.....-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n" }, "published": "2025-02-26T23:19:40.672055+00:00", "sensitive": false, "type": "Feed", "updated": "2025-02-26T23:19:40.672058+00:00", "url": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse"}

attributedTo points to /moderators:

{ "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1" ], "id": "https://piefed.social/f/fediverse/moderators", "orderedItems": [ "https://piefed.social/u/rimu" ], "totalItems": 1, "type": "OrderedCollection"}

At this moment we also have the moderators property, but as I have found out in this thread thats not a real property in AP as yet, so I'll adjust the code to not use that in the future.

We made the /moderators be a collection to give us some future proofing. Ie right now one person can own a given feed. But if we want to add the ability to have more than one person moderate a feed in the future its easier if this starts life as some kind of collection, so we can just add items to it if we want in the future.

silverpill@mitra.social

@JollyRoberts You can define a new property in https://w3id.org/fep namespace (see FEP-888d), along with the Feed type.
I think this is better than attributing actor to a collection, which is very unusual (though I don't expect that to cause any interop issues). Another option is to use an array value for attributedTo, this is also uncommon but some implementations do this (If I remember correctly, PeerTube is one of them).

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