Proposed FEP-a974: All Actor types should be followable

[trwnh]

that last post got a bit long and in-the-weeds so i’m gonna say these are the important tldr bits:

@trwnh

it’s less interesting to ask “what is an actor” and more interesting to ask “what can be followed” and then by extension “how can we follow it”. if we say that you can follow anything with followers then the next question is where to send the Follow;

@trwnh

it’s out-of-spec on how to spawn actors or more precisely “how to create an object that has a followers collection and that you can Follow”. this is the problem i think we should be trying to solve.

i think @thisismissem has it right here that:

@thisismissem

services should not hardcode a list of accepted actor types, and instead code for the behavior of an actor. If an Actor has a followers collection, then it could be considered followable