What happens when an ActivityPub platform with a low character limit federates with a different ActivityPub platform that has a high character limit?
I'm considering hosting my own ActivityPub feed on Wordpress. Wordpress allows me to configure a max length of the content field of my ActivityPub article objects. I was thinking of setting this to something very large, such as 100,000 characters, such that the entire contents of my (sometimes very long) articles could be federated (note that a 100,000 character text post is probably smaller in bytes than many posts with 0 characters and 1 image)
My chief concern about federating article objects with such long contents is: how will other platforms handle it? Will they:
- Display them in-full
- Truncate them to their own "internal character limit".
- Truncate them to some "external-content character limit"
- Not display them at all.
Across the now-multitude of ActivityPub services on the Internet, how do they handle incoming federated article objects with hundreds of thousands (or millions?) of characters in their content field?