#social 2019-02-25

2019-02-25 UTC
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# 23:04 
Gargron hey cwebber I have a question
# 23:05 
Gargron the Question type is an activity, rather than an object, which is super weird
# 23:05 
Gargron can i Create/Announce a Question?
# 23:05 
Gargron and Delete?
# 23:06 
tantek Gargron, I would tend to agree. I think of a Question as a post type, an object
# 23:07 
tantek we've done some very light documentation here, could definitely be expanded with more examples etc. https://indieweb.org/question
# 23:07 
Gargron I'm talking about ActivityPub/ActivityStreams, sorry
# 23:07 
tantek Gargron, I'm talking from a user perspective, independent of plumbing/protocol
# 23:08 
Gargron right. in that case I agree
# 23:08 
Gargron it's not even "Ask", "Question" is a strange keyword to make an activity
# 23:08 
tantek agreed
# 23:08 
Gargron I'm working on polls in Mastodon
# 23:08 
tantek cool!
# 23:09 
Gargron So my idea is to just use "Question" instead of "Note" for toots that have a poll attached
# 23:09 
tantek I guess that's the closest thing
# 23:09 
tantek I kinda feel like an open ended Question is a little different from a Poll with Choices
# 23:10 
tantek though I guess a Poll could map to a Question?
# 23:10 
tantek feels odd to not be able to model the "possible choices" aspect
# 23:11 
Gargron there is no Poll
# 23:12 
Gargron the Question type supports oneOf/anyOf arrays of answers
# 23:12 
Gargron so it's intended to be a multiple-choice thing
# 23:12 
tantek ok
# 23:15 
nightpool[m] if we were going to make Question an activity, what would it's object even be?
# 23:15 
Gargron its an IntransientActivity so it has no object
# 23:16 
Gargron i dont see a reason why its not simply an Object though
# 23:35 
nightpool[m] ah.... hm
# 23:35 
aaronpk "question" sure sounds like an object to me
# 23:36 
aaronpk since in theory, there had to be two implementations of every feature in activitystreams in order for it to get to REC, what are the implementations of Question and how do they handle it?
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# 23:58 
cjslep[m] There's some non-obvious pitfalls to making an Activity the "object" in another Activity. I made a post discussing specifically if the outer Activity is an "Update" here: https://socialhub.network/t/updating-an-offer/413/4
# 23:58 
Gargron i am not aware of any implementations
# 23:59 
cjslep[m] In that particular discussion, the "should have been an Object instead of Activity" is an Offer type.