On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 07:49:48PM +0100, Jeff Burdges wrote: > I’ve forgotten what PSYC does.. I vaguely recall key values pairs ala HTML.. > I’ve no real idea why a key-value abstraction helps in messaging.
Check out t3sserakt's talk explaining modeling the many facets of visibility of profile data needed to reflect real-world society use cases: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ChaosWest-2-modeling_trust_in_a_distributed_private_social_network_secushare_org Each person's view of another's profile is a combination of channels they is entitled to see and aggregate. It makes sense to structure the data in each channel with PSYC's hierarchic key-value stores and the semantic inheritance feature implied in that syntax. https://about.psyc.eu/Keyword explains semantic inheritance a bit. It also introduces keyword name compression whereby each semantic step is reduced to a single letter without sacrificing extensibility. In PSYC you can add new features without software upgrade and still count on a gracious fallback to the previously defined semantics. That's what keyword inheritance achieves. And as a side effect it allows to map complex data into flat key-value stores.
