> Also there may be (?) a new workflow involving an Accept from the moderators of the destination audience. Thanks for calling that out, that's a legitimate use case that I would not have anticipated.

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@obenland@mastodon.social wonderful, good work!

Thank you @deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org and @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io, I was a little caught off guard by the whole thing. Happened so fast, and now FediForum is cancelled. Hmm.

@raphael@mastodon.communick.com great!

@sardegna Hmm, ein sehr guter Einwand. Da habe ich den Satz gar nicht zu Ende gedacht.

Based on the replies received, it does sound like at present that if cross-posting is a consideration, it is something done locally, and not something that is explicitly declared when federating outward or retrieved via AP. There are also multiple definitions of cross-posting: Multiple, disparate topics sharing the same attachment url (PieFed) Author targeting multiple audiences Non-author sharing object to additional audiences One of those is really not like the other, which does complicate things somewhat. Thankfully, it does seem like that the way PieFed handles it, is local to the instance. A good first step might be to narrow down the definition of cross-posting—at least from a protocol level—to a combination of the latter two: > "A user (which may or may not be the object author) sharing an object to additional audiences" Of course, this also happens to be what I'm looking for: the association of an as:announce activity with an as:target pointing to an as:Group actor. Would this be of interest to anybody here? The fallback mechanism is to just treat the announce as usual.

@mario@hub.somaton.com that's wonderful to hear! Thank you so much.