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title = "so you want to make a social communication protocol"
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summary = "looking at prior art and synthesizing a data model that makes sense as the foundation for a protocol"
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date = 2024-10-20T03:58:55-05:00
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toc = true
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autonumbering = false
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draft = true
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streams = ["all"]
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tags = ["activitypub", "activity streams", "as2", "fedi", "indieweb", "social web", "social networking", "social media", "social communication", "social"]
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series = "fedi and the social web 2024"
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series_part = "3"
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## Things vs References
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At the base of the data model, you either have a *thing*, or a *reference to a thing*. The distinction between the thing vs. the reference is important because the reference might have its own properties, separately from the thing.
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### Prior art
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#### Microformats 2
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Initially, the Indieweb and Microformats community started out with a much narrower scope for their building blocks:
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- <cite class="h-cite">[h-entry](http://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry)</cite> started out as a way to represent "datestamped or episodic content", but has since evolved to represent any content piece in general.
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- <cite class="h-cite">[h-cite](http://microformats.org/wiki/h-cite)</cite> started out as a way to represent "citations or references to online publications", but has since evolved to represent any reference in general.
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#### Activity Streams 2.0
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<cite class="h-cite">[Activity Streams 2.0](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/)</cite> defines two base classes from which everything else inherits:
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- Object, which represents any object ("thing")
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- Link, which represents a web link ("reference")
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## Posts
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A "post" is a *thing* that generally has content.
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## Context and Audience
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For any "post", the most important bit about it (after the content itself) is to be able to understand why the post was made, and who it was made for.
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## Stores and Transports
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## Identity
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