Scripting News: Sunday, September 8, 2024
Sunday, September 8, 2024 Peering in the social web # A very practical issue. # BlueSky has a 300 character limit, which is less than the other services I cross-post to, namely: # Mastodon: 500 (using mastodon.social as benchmark) # Threads: 500 # Twitter: 10000 (assume paying the montly fee) # RSS: no specific limit # WordPress: no specific limit # BlueSky: 300 # This will be a problem when we eventually get peering working cross-network among twitter-like systems. # It looks to me, just eyeballing this list, that 500 is a good place to start, although I don't think ultimately there should be any specific limits. # We saw that clearly when RSS 0.91 was the most recent version, there were limits in the Netscape doc, but they were ignored by content sources, which is why I took them out in the 0.92 and 2.0 versions. # Peering is simpler than federation. It would enable people to send messages across t