I'm working on a new fedi server, and wanted to build on top of existing ActivityPub C2S API, rather than creating my own API.

I was looking through some of the specs for ideas. One of the things I want to have is similar to Mastodon lists but more hierarchical, and I was trying to think of a good way to represent this. The lists should be an OrderedCollection, but I'm thinking about discovery. Basically, I want an easy way for the client to discover these user-defined lists in an AP-conformant way.

So, on the actor object, there's this field that MAY be included:

streams: A list of supplementary Collections which may be of interest.

I think this is probably what I need, but this isn't very specific about how this field is formatted. And I've never seen this used in the wild. I'm not sure if this is a simple array of URLs to Collections, or a Collection of Collections, or perhaps an object of key/value pairs with the values being links to the Collections.

@[email protected] says on ActivityPub Primer:

This property is not widely implemented. There is not a clear way to filter the list of Collections according to what a client application may need. For example, a client application that wants to show contact lists to the user would not have an easy way to find only contact lists in streams. A client application that wants to show photo albums to the user would not have an easy way to find only photo albums in streams.

He suggests using extensions, in lieu of streams, but since it's not clear exactly how this property is to be used, I'm not sure if this would be insufficient for my needs or not.

Does anybody have any more insight into this field and how to use it?

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One of my coworkers, during a meeting, just accidentally misgendered another coworker who's non-binary. They gently corrected the mistake and moved on, which was fine, but the manner of misgendering made me wonder how best he should've addressed them.

He was trying to give them a compliment on their new haircut. What he said was "Girl, you're rocking that look!"

They corrected him saying, "Not girl, 'they', but in response to your other question ..."

If they were a woman, "Girl!" would've been a culturally appropriate way to address them in this circumstance. If they were a man, "Dude!" might've been more appropriate. So, what's the appropriate (at least in the US) non-binary alternative in this circumstance? Obviously, he could've just used their name, which would've worked well enough, but doesn't quite carry the same weight as the gendered alternatives.

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