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unified.test.hugo/assets/styles/common/elements.scss

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ th, td {
 /* figures */
 figure {
 	margin: 0;
+	max-width: max-content;
 }
 figcaption {
 	padding-block: 1em;
@@ -54,7 +55,6 @@ figcaption {
 figure img {
 	display: block;
 	margin: 0 auto;
-	width: 100%;
 }
 figure img ~ figcaption {
 	background: var(--ui-overlay);

unified.test.hugo/content/theorycrafting/quote-feature-disambiguation/index.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title = "Disambiguating various interpretations of a \"quote\" feature"
 summary = "Broadly speaking, there are [...] Quote replies (reply with adjacent contextual preview) [...] Quote tags (rich quotes embedded in content) [...] [and] Quote boosts (reshare with comment)"
 date = 2023-07-18T21:17:00-05:00
+updated = 2024-11-13T11:27:12-06:00
 toc = true
 autonumbering = false
 streams = ["all"]
@@ -42,6 +43,19 @@ It is possible to add `content` to your `Announce` activity; a generic presentat
 
 [^announce-as-forwarding]: Some software implementations *do not* use `Announce` as a reshare activity, and instead use it for other purposes outside of a publishing context, such as wrapping and forwarding someone else's activity. The intended specified mechanism for doing this is inbox forwarding.
 
+### The quote activity
+
+Instead of an `Announce` with `content`, we can define a new Activity type `Quote` that can be used similarly, but has different semantics. Whereas an `Announce` is defined like so:
+
+> Indicates that the `actor` is calling the `target` 's attention the `object`.
+
+So instead of "calling for attention", the `Quote` activity would instead be defined semantically as:
+
+Quote
+: Indicates that the `actor` is quoting the `object` verbatim in its entirety.
+
+The "quote activity" might also instead be named something else to avoid potential conflicts with other shorthand terms. Something like `Cite` could also work. Alternatively, other disambiguated senses of the word may be represented in the noun form as a `Quotation` or `Citation`.
+
 ## Comparison and analysis
 
 ### Quote replies (reply with adjacent contextual preview)
@@ -58,4 +72,10 @@ It is possible to add `content` to your `Announce` activity; a generic presentat
 ### Quote boosts (reshare with comment)
 
 - (~) Might be semantically appropriate, if the "sharing" aspect of the "quote post" is what you intended.
-- (-) Falls back to a normal boost, without displaying the added content at all.
+- (-) Falls back to a normal boost, without displaying the added content at all.
+
+### Quote activities (new extension Activity type)
+
+- (~) No fallback. This could be either good or bad, depending on if you want a fallback or if you want the semantics to be respected.
+- (+) With the existence of a `quotes` collection (even if the `items` might be private), we can use its IRI as the `target` of an `Add` which acts as a stamp of inclusion in a parallel way to how one might signal an Add into the `likes`, `shares`, `replies`, `context`, etc collections.
+- (+) In theory supports one or multiple `object` references, but even if you limit the cardinality to 1, this at least "frees up" the `inReplyTo` property for cases where you might reply to one post while quoting a different post. It also remains possible to `Quote` an `object` while also declaring that your `Quote` is `inReplyTo` the same `object`.