[greentea23]

Yes. Nostr and ActivityPub are so easy too, I don't see much advantage to ATProto and so many disadvantages. It's as decentralized as a meme coin, just waiting for the rug pull.

To me something git-like with a peer review UI (a la pull requests) seems far more natural for distributed academic publications than a social media protocol though.

[crimsoneer]

So I briefly touched on this in the blog post, but to expand a little... ATProto provides significantly more "batteries included" than ActivityPub in my view - if you use ATProto, it can handle both authentication and identity management, and effectively act as your back-end and CRUD operations (eg, oauth with your PDS, and then write/read from the network for your object creation based on your Lexicon).

ActivityPub, based on my understanding, really doesn't work like that - while you an oauth with your mastodon account, the expectation is you'll be handling identity and back-end bits, and then sharing events across the network (happy to be corrected).

Part of what kicked this off is seeing ATProto's new devrel person at a meetup and finding their vision pretty compelling.

But yes, ActivityPub is more "robust" and decentralised (hence also jankier)

https://andreasthinks.me/posts/octosphere/octosphere.html

[verdverm]

It's for more than publishing, it's for science, which involves people collaborating and communicating