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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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.
Tio
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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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Rokosun
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 • •Calamity Joan 😷
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)
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in reply to Calamity Joan 😷 • •Mindaugas
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"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/)
Open Science Network
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