Demystifying the context property
Codeberg.org,
Oct 01, 2024
The concept of 'context' plays a number of roles not only in the fediverse but in digital communications generally. Some examples of context in this article include a "topic" in a forum presentation, a "conversation" in a social networking presentation, a "room" in a chatting or messaging presentation, and a "thread" in any of the above contexts (forum thread, social media thread, chat thread). Context serves as an indicator when publishing posts, and (some would argue) could operate as a limiter, determining who can see posts (for example, a context of 'family', it is argued, out to be limited to family). I can sort of envisage a technology that matches post contexts to reader contexts, but I'm sure this gets complex in a hurry. Via full thread.
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