I continue my discussion with a team, creating #ActivityPub specification, doing my best to solve its conceptual mistake of presenting Users of the real world, their Accounts at servers and Actors of #ActivityStreams as synonyms, see https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/260
From that discussion:
Account is not an Actor, it's an authorised communication channel, a way for an Actor to communicate in a Social Network using a Server... (more work on this phrase may be needed but the meaning is this). And this relation should be stated in the main part of the document, not in some "notes", exactly because this is a conceptual level statement, not an implementation intricacy...
At the edge case, which happens to be the only case currently covered by the ActivityPub spec, Actor relates to Account as one-to-one. And only for that edge case mixing attributes of Actor and of Account can be done, but only as a temporary hack, violating design patterns...
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