What are the advantages of ATProto over ActivityPub? I don't get it, if you want...

Hamuko · on May 6, 2023

Character limits for one thing.

  "text": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 3000,
      "maxGraphemes": 300
  }

https://atproto.com/lexicons/app-bsky-feed#appbskyfeedpost

detaro · on May 6, 2023

How is that a benefit over ActivityPub? Hard-coding a post size limit in the protocol seems like a negative thing to me?

Hamuko · on May 7, 2023

Because it's a microblog like Twitter.

glenstein · on May 7, 2023

I'm still not clear on why that's a benefit?

Nothing about the architecture of the protocol itself? Or better account migration or improved design of name conventions, or improved server performance?

citruscomputing · on May 6, 2023

The mastodon server I use has a max length of 5k characters, so not really.

Hamuko · on May 7, 2023

That's not part of the ActivityPub protocol.

doublepg23 · on May 7, 2023

I’m sure it will make them a lot of VC money.

steveklabnik · on May 7, 2023

There aren’t any VCs involved, so.