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> I can easily install an ActivityPub server, with Glitch. Can you? The same Glitch that shut down last year? https://blog.glitch.com/post/goodbye-glitch https
by madeofpalk 3mo ago
> I can easily install an ActivityPub server, with Glitch.
Can you? The same Glitch that shut down last year? https://blog.glitch.com/post/goodbye-glitch https://blog.glitch.com/post/goodbye-glitch
Regardless, ActivityPub and ATProto have different designs and goals. Your question is akin to comparing a helicopter and an airplane.
There's no such thing as a "ATProto server". How complicated it is, and the trade-offs it made are valid criticisms of it. It all depends on what exactly your goal is as a participant of a distributed social network.
- inigyou 3mo agoWhat does ATProto run on, if not servers? Is it fully decentralised mesh P2P that runs on phones?
- madeofpalk 3mo agoWhat makes up the ATProto is more than one type of server. Compared to ActivityPub where you just run a single Mastodon instance and you're set. If the thing you want to own is your identity and data, you can fairly easy run a PDS yourself. If the thing you care about is different moderation decisions, you can run your own labeller (moderation system) or subscribe to another someone else has made.
- anentropic 3mo agoThere's not one server instance type, there are different components to it To 'own your data' you just need a PDS, which should be cheaper to run than an ActivityPub server To build an app you need some of the more expensive parts