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Does context in AP have to be a collection, or can be be like a Flag activity? Say I wanted to Create(Note) about a Flag I'd received, I'd need:

1) A way to address the remote moderation team (moderation group actor)

2) A way to say "this note is about this Flag activity", using inReplyTo would feel weird here, but maybe context would work?

@thisismissem semantically, yes, it can be a flag or anything else you want. Functionally, for real world implementations? 🤷‍♀️

I'm trying to think through what letterbook would do, and I suspect it would do the right thing. At least at the point of receiving the message. I would need some logic in reports to connect them back to that context, but i think that's likely to be straight forward

@thisismissem what I really want is context to be

1. A stable identifier that I can index
2. An indicator of whether and how reply control is implemented
3. A collection of related content-like objects, if reply control is implemented

In that order.

I think using a Flag (or its ID) satisfies that

infinite love ⴳ

@jenniferplusplus @thisismissem i think you’re in luck because it’s at least guaranteed to be 1. that’s the “intended usage” per the spec and per how it got implemented.

2 requires you to be able to dereference that stable id from 1, but it doesn’t require any specific type or repr. it just needs an owner and some properties signaling who can participate and how.

3 requires the dereferenced object in 2 to specifically be a collection.

Flag as context works for grouping but not backfilling.

@trwnh @jenniferplusplus yeah, and jn the context of comments on a Flag that are directed at you, I don't believe there'd be a need to backfill?