Mastodon character limit is such a weird concept and useless and pointless I can't believe is still there. People who want to say more than a paragraph need to split it into "threads"...insane!
Look:
How the fuck you get to read and interact with a post divided into tens of comments.....
This is silly as fuck people.
If you have no character limit, guess what, you can still make short posts. But not vice-versa.
It is beyond me why this is still a thing in 2025. Artificial limitations.
Man I LOVE Friendica! A proper way to make posts and interact with people. And yet not many are aware of Friendica and how awesome it is.
@Meredith Whittaker you should either move to a Mastodon instance without character limitation or try Friendca. You can even use our node social.trom.tf - and that's for anyone else who is bothered by this artificial limitation of Mastodon.
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Dying of heat in Spain...and fixing the shower tub - videos.trom.tf/w/1DNNLUCRtsbW7…
This video is to show you how Tio was melting in Spain in July/August in a parking lot. It was so hot, easily over 30 degrees inside the motorhome almost every single day. He had 6-7 fans running almost nonstop. He also fixed our terribly looking shower tub and did other things to the motorhome. Enjoy the pain 😃
#motorhome #camper #vanlife #travel #heat #spain
Dying of heat in Spain...and fixing the shower tub
This video is to show you how Tio was melting in Spain in July/August in a parking lot. It was so hot, easily over 30 degrees inside the motorhome almost every single day. He had 6-7 fans running almost nonstop. He also fixed our terribly looking shower tub and did other things to the motorhome. Enjoy the pain :)
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Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
(post: Eileen Clancy)
Brace for another wave of x refugees...
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Handen af van zomertijd
Jullie ochtendmensen hebben verdomme de hele wereld al in bezit.
Hou je hebberige handjes thuis! Wij avondmensen willen ook wel eens iets op een iets normalere tijd doen in plaats van in jullie heilige ritme, met je prikklokken en je eisen.
De morgenstond meurt uit zijn mond!
Goddank woonde ik tijdens mijn middelbare school periode op 5 minuten loopafstand van school en dan was ik vaak nog te laat...
NHS App problems?
My wife's hasn't, but mine has!
NHS app now tells me I should use Chrome browser (haven't used that for years) then asks me to prove I'm human by choosing set of pictures!
I don't update android apps from the Google playstore where the app won't upload, but from the Aurora app store, and I wonder if this is "The Do Evil Corp" trying to make everyone use them.
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Looked at the slow mo playback and it was definitely not accidental!
Match to be rescheduled, not the offender penalised!
The Canadians' AI tech is amazing!
This video not only passes all the "not AI" tests, but they somehow got VHS copies in the National Archives AND the Reagan library!
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The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.catalog.archives.gov
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
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For trade reasons the Internet has become a marketplace (trade currency, attention, data). Therefore monopolies have formed, owning and controlling search, major platforms, and apps.
On the other had the other marketers want their websites/content to rank higher, to get more views, show more ads, make more money. So shitty websites and content for the sake of that.
Thus the Internet is a load of poop nowadays. Hard to find what you are looking for.
So now these monopolies are inserting these AI chatbots into search. They seem very convenient for people. Go straight to an answer. And the monopolies do not care that these chatbots lie a lot.
Happy business everyone!
Trade is the root of most problems. As I've been saying for many years now.
#TradeRuinsEverything #trade #ai #chatbots #chatgpt #gemini #bbc #study
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While AI bubble keeps growing ridiculously high, disturbing news are coming from NASA.. Imagine investing at least a portion of those enourmous money into researching the reality and world we all live in.. into something that actually may help to make our lives better as science did many times already.
latimes.com/science/story/2025…
#nasa #jpl #layoffs #aibubble #ai #TradeRuinsEverything #trade-free
JPL may not recover from its budgeting woes
After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a daunting task: reclaiming its place at the vanguard of exploration and innovation.Noah Haggerty (Los Angeles Times)
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Mind blowing that these things are real! I really liked this documentary series. 2 parts. Must watch.
#space #quantum #cosmos #science #documentary
See how our understanding of nature and the universe has been transformed since the 1970s.
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À la bonne époque de Twitter, il y avait une règle, voir passer cette vidéo implique de booster.
Mindaugas
in reply to Tio • • •But my mastodon instance in particular have very high limit set, basically unlimited ☺️ So I believe its a choice to limit or not by instance admin.
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Mindaugas
in reply to aaron • • •@aaron
"if an admin can extend the post size limit in Mastodon then that's a cool feature"
I learned it is not a feature to extend post size limit in Mastodon, but a hardcoded value in code, which is very difficult to change depending on deployment method, but possible. They should make this a feature.
And talking about friendica, it looks outdated (the original theme), which does not provide overall confidence, if comparing to new highly extensible, innovative and beautiful bonfire (for example, a flavor of it for scientists: openscience.network/)
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Ramin Honary
in reply to Tio • • •the Mastodon instance can configure the character limit to be longer. It is so annoying to tell people who have never tried Mastodon before that you should check the character limits on the instance you choose to join because that could make your life easier or harder if you like writing long posts. Yet another inconsistency that people have to be aware about which complicates use of the software.
The Mastodon software should have a million character limit and instead offer a separate window in which to view long posts, and otherwise only show the first paragraph by default.
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in reply to Ramin Honary • • •Yeah I don't like the fact that my Mastodon instance has a character limit. But I also have an account on Friendica to post long stuff when I want to, so that's how I manage.....
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klu9
in reply to Tio • • •One thing I use Mastodon for is #WatchParty joinfediverse.wiki/Watch_party
e.g. following & posting "live" to hashtags like #Monsterdon while watching a film
I asked #Mastodon if #Fediverse platforms like #Friendica, #Sharkey were suitable for that but didn't get an answer
I created a Sharkey account & found out no, no good for watch parties (you can put hashtags in "antennas" but that only gives you a tiny, random-seeming selection of posts with the tags)
What about Friendica?
Watch party - Join the Fediverse
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in reply to klu9 • •Joan, but festive 🎅🏼🎄
in reply to Tio • • •Bah! Humbug! If someone wants to prattle on ad nauseam, may I introduce them to a "blog."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Keep short form short and sweet.
@Mer__edith
discussion or informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts)
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Tio
in reply to Joan, but festive 🎅🏼🎄 • •