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A Fediverse Labeler would output a separate ActivityStreams "Profile" Object for each thing it wants to label.

Each of these should be at a separate URL.

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The "describes" field would point to the thing being labelled.

The "attributedTo" field would point to the person or machine that create these label.

And the "attachment" field would be a list of labels.

The (top level) "icon" field would be an icon that would be shown next to the label in the user-interface (UI).

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Note that even in this example, that there are different types of labels!

I have some examples of text labels.

But I also have some examples of Icon labels.

(Other types of labels could exist, too.)

@reiver you would probably want to always have a textual representation of a Label, however, perhaps a flag to say “use the image attachment associated with this label instead of the textual version" — it's important that we can correctly do alt text on image-based labels, if that's something that's desired.

I think we'd most likely be allowing a small svg/png icon for the label, not an image in its entirety.

@reiver @thisismissem I think you should always have a text name for a label, even if it's an emoji.

@risottobias @thisismissem

What if the user doesn't fill in a required text name?

It would just be an empty string.

(I can imagine many many people not bothering to fill in a text label for image-labels.)

@reiver @thisismissem you can't label something if it's blank,

So if someone makes an image label, the software should refuse to make it if it's blank

This is the same as a poll, the software refuses to let you have an empty zero length option

@reiver @thisismissem related, I'm doing a silly thing with labels in @bivouacwiki called decals https://bivouac.wiki/6decal.html