So after lots of brainstorming based on the awesome feedback and ideas in this thread, in today’s Bonfire team meeting, we agreed to:
- keep
reply_toas a single field (in order to better interoperate with existing ActivityPub apps, and to optionally display a tree UI without repeated replies), - to also add a one-to-many way to mention other posts so we can have either tree views, image-board style views, or various hybrid approaches
Our decisions are just an agreement about something that’s “good enough to try for now” so the discussion can continue!.. 