Gregory's Server@J12t the thinking is less "consistent reply trees" and more "consistent moderated conversations". whereas the reply tree is an implicit structure that needs no approval to be part of, having an actual reified collection with an explicit owner/moderator allows us to authoritatively decide which certain posts are allowed into the conversation or not. anyone can reply to anything, but not anyone can Add into a Collection.
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 @J12t This is mostly invisible to users except in what UX it enables -- for example, following a thread instead of a nebulous "group actor" that spams them with completely unrelated or uninteresting activities. or being able to browse a thread at all, or having a thread at all. |
@trwnh imho these finer points are really hard for casual users to understand. And nobody wants to think hard when chatting casually. Avoid if possible I would recommend…