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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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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Congrats #PeerTube admins & video makers, you're part of a very big network with over a million videos spread across more than 1,700 platforms! 🥳
Thank you for bringing life to the network!
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if you (as a mstodon poster) want to emotionally supprt peertube a bit:
go watch a peertube viedo. copy the share link. paste the share link into mastodon. That should open the peertube video like a mstodon post.
=> like, subscribe and leave a comment 
. Chances are that you will be first comment
There's only one thing worse than having too many people in critical positions of power, that don't understand Root Cause Analysis; and that's too many that do, and STILL choose abuse of power.
It's one thing in burning fossil fuels, following a major revolution like the Industrial Revolution. It's another to have a clear path to graduating the burning application, and continuing to burn it, put future generations at risk, for the sake of more profit.
And the longer this continues; the more expendable our species is.
Yah there is no purpose in this society other than trading. Ancient practice that has transformed us all into merchants and consumers. Until that is recognized there is no path towards a solution.
Source - theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Some photos from another amazing cave in Spain: Cuevas del Aguila, just west of Madrid.
This one looks quite unique as the harder iron-rich rock in the cave is of a much darker, redder color than the bright white speleothems made of calcium carbonate. Well worth the 11 euro tour!
Here is our video about it-
videos.trom.tf/w/xdjRvcM28Mxim…
#Cave #caves #cavescience #travel #spain #RV #motorhome #geology #europe
Cuevas Del Aguila - a wonderland :)
This cave looks so out of this world. The white of the calcium combined with the "rust" of the rock make up for a unique landscape. Very memorable! We paid 11 Euros each for the tour and it was well worth it.
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By-catch of sharks is a huge problem. Industrial fishing and especially bottom trawling is not only completely destroying seafloor and underwater habitat but also created so many unneeded and useless death of thousands of sea creatures. I don't even understand how it is legal.
In this episode we went to Albania to the "Sharklab" laboratory which conducting numerous studies on sharks, but also work in shark conservation and protection.
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The Hidden Cost of Seafood
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TOP 6 Motorhome Parking Places in Spain - videos.trom.tf/w/34TeiZDb7M4sY…
We found so many amazing parking places for motorhomes in Spain, it is insane. Most are providing free water disposal and filling up your tanks, and rarely free electricity.
#motorhme #spain #nature #travel #vanlife #camper #travel
TOP 6 Motorhome Parking Places in Spain
We found so many amazing parking places for motorhomes in Spain, it is insane. Most are providing free water disposal and filling up your tanks, and rarely free electricity.These are the best parking spots we found:
- 02:16 - La Torre de Cabdella
- 03:27 - Cirat
- 04:50 - Arenas del Rey
- 06:50 - La Picota
- 09:32 - San Esteban del Valle
- 12:37 - Acebedo
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This is a crazy documentary! I remember when I saw the one about Navalny and this journalist who helped them uncover how Putin poisoned him, and now to see Putin go after this journalist feels surreal.
This documentary kept me so focus from the first minute... A must watch!
#putin #navalny #documantary #pbs
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Thank you Martin for becoming our new TROM supporter - tromsite.com/donate/
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Updated my Photos with 130 more :)
Finally after months of wanting to do this , I did it. I organized my photos tiotrom.com/photos/ - added 130 more :) and added a description for them all. Useful I think. These are the most interesting, beautiful, and important photos I have taken.
I will share a handful here.
If you look closely you see the Andromeda Galaxy in this one:
Our Tortuga and the Universe:
I love the colors in this photo, it was a beautiful day (Sasha is the one jumping):
Caminito del Rey:
Tortuga and the Orion Belt:
One of the most amazing caves out there:
Just a lake but I love this photo:
We found a giant bench :)
Sunset in the mountains:
Cares trail in Picos de Europa, the most amazing hike:
Sotres, a super nice village on top of a mountain:
Also the most amazing lookout:
Around that area I took a photo of this baby horse and his mama:
And on top of Picos de Europa:
The ALIEN desert we visited:
And more.... :)
Memories. Wonderful places. And will create more such memories.
#nature #astrophotography #spain #travel #desert #motorhome #camper
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Good documentary that keeps it scientific. Not conspiracy bullshit.
#ufo #ufp #documentary
After decades in the shadows, UFOs are being studied seriously. Are they weather balloons, optical illusions, secret military technology? Or something else?
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Yeah I also just watched these 2 videos talking about the same AI craziness:
youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0oQ0v0W1…
youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU…
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Thank you Matthieu for becoming our new 200 for TROM supporter! tromsite.com/donate/
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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.
aaron
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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/)
Open Science Network
Open Science NetworkTio
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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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Grow Fediverse
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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
joinfediverse.wikiTio
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 🎅🏼🎄 • •