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@evanEvan Prodromou Yes, it can be done in the client or the server, or both. I’d like to see an interoperable way to define custom timelines (a kind of user-defined timeline algo) that the server maintains. A Mastodon account list timeline is a super simple version of it, but AP could provide something much more powerful (advanced filtering, merging, ranking, …). Ideally, these could be shared and customized further on the client side.
@steveSteve Bate frankly I disagree with this point. Servers should be simple. We need to move away from the paradigm of custom purpose ActivityPub servers that Mastodon pushed where the client and server are the same service.
Timelines should be orthogonal to the ActivityPub specification and, in my opinion, kept well away from it.
What's the benefit for my client application to know what your server's preferred timeline representation is?
Let's not go down the path where everything looks like a nail because we really like hammers.
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