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@normandy My dream Fediverse node has the feature to let you categorize your posts, and people can follow a virtual account that is a subset of your posts, like host.domain/normandy/(anime+tech) or whatever.
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@clacke like, you know, feeds for a person's hashtags?
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@mmn Right! But you can't follow them as were they a user, right?
Or can you?
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@clacke Well, I don't think that it should be expected that the server delivers such a feed, but if it does you could always subscribe to it as with any other RSS/Atom feed if enabled on your server. For some reason we haven't enabled Atom links for !GNUsocial user tag feeds, but at least RSS 1.0 is linked: https://social.umeahackerspace.se/mmn/tag/hashtag
Note, this won't work for ActivityPub since it defies the long-established standards of feeds and requires various magic protocol specific mechanisms and artificial server intelligence .)
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@infernalturtle @mmn OStatus has two layers, the feed (RSS/Atom) and the real-time push updates from the feed (WebSub née PubSubHubbub), but ActivityPub (just like pump.io) collapses the layers and has you do AP-specific things to register your inbox endpoint to the outbox endpoint.
There is a feed, the outbox endpoint, but it's not RSS or Atom, it's an https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#collection .
There's nothing stopping some AP node from advertising on its outbox endpoints that they're valid WebSub topics (using rel=hub and rel=self Link headers), and delivering, as its Content Distribution Notification, a partial Collection, stripped of the entries the subscriber already received, but that's an ad-hoc combination of the standards, it's not specified or standardized. There is no subscriber implemented today that would be able to consume it.
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@benis @normandy I am not aware of a Usenet client that allows you to follow a set of intersections between newsgroup and author, but I admit I never got deep into Usenet.