• onlooker
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    4 years ago

    I’ve just started reading, but I’ve already come across one issue with the article:

    All posts have a character limit, so we can’t say everything we want in a single post.

    If that’s the case, then why did they use Mastodon? Why not Plume or write.as, which are more suited for longer blog posts?

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      I believe it’s just Eugen not willing to remove the useless limits. People very rarely go past 400 anyway, but when you really have something to say, you have to start these stupid threads like you’d do in Twitter. I wish Mastodon would just start trunkating posts at a certain character/line limit, behind a “show more” button.

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          4 years ago

          Mastodon is specifically developed to facilitate short Twitter-like posts. Consider moving to a different service altogether if you keep having issues with it.

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        Some instances allow a longer character limit. It’s really just an option that the admin decides, most admins just keep, the default. if you have a greater character limit then longer toots will be under “show more”.

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            Ok my bad. I didn’t know you couldn’t change it at all without using a fork. That’s a bit of a shame I think. To be honest the more I think about it Mastodon isn’t always the best thing to host anyway unless you are planning on a large community.