it would be nice to be able to browse different threads as contexts (7888 tries to describe this, but most projects currently rely only on inReplyTo and have no real way to group related objects and activities)
i am not entirely sure if the named projects here are going to build out an actual data model for forums though… sadly, it seems like they are all interested in mastodon compatibility first and foremost, which means trying to cram everything into a distributed profile-shaped hole instead of having a browsable thread-based solution.
i suppose i might as well put this out there: any forum interested in modeling a proper forum is welcome to reach out to me for consultancy on how it might be done. i’m kind of already doing it for myself anyway, just haven’t gotten around to fully documenting all the necessary pieces (which includes things like contexts and collections and adding/removing into them rather than creating/deleting only, but there’s more to it of course…)