It sounds like I’d still have to create user accounts locally, if only to properly represent delegation of actions and fight against spam. But, the idea of automatically creating an account on successful authentication doesn’t sound too ridiculous.

But, those accounts don’t have to be Actors themselves. A Group admin could review submitted Events, and approve them, and the resulting create / announce activities could use the Group Actor as the author…

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