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They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable

They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.

Grue3 8y ago
Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?
- smacktoward 8y ago
  Mastodon has a character limit, but the protocol underlying Mastodon (ActivityPub: http://activitypub.rocks/ http://activitypub.rocks/) doesn't. Adding a character limit was just a design decision on the part of the Mastodon developers to make their app more Twitter-like. There's nothing stopping others from building apps that don't have a character limit, and they would be able to federate with Mastodon and other AP-enabled apps just fine.
  - egypturnash 8y ago
    There’s patches floating around to change the limit on Masto, too. My instance limits you to 7777, and requires you to put it behind a CW if it’s more than 777. I know of an instance that gives you unlimited text if it’s behind a CW.
    - scarejunba 8y ago
      What's a CW?
      - kiike 8y ago
        Content warning. Like those spoiler tags in some forums that let you hide or show the actual spoiler.
      - deleted 8y ago
        [deleted]
    - progval 8y ago
      Why require a CW for that? Most clients should auto-collapse long messages now. (Mastodon's web client does).
sodosopa 8y ago
Honest question from a Mastodon user. Is it truly that large? Most of the nodes I'm on remind me of 2006 Twitter, shouting in the dark.
- JetSpiegel 8y ago
  As opposed to current Twitter, throwing a message-in-a-bottle into a landfill of messages in bottles.
dredmorbius 8y ago
Reddit has 330 MAU. All of Mastodon is somewhat over 2 million users, with an unknown set of nonregistered viewers / readers. It's not a tiny userbase, but it's quite small by present social media standards. http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/general http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/general https://www.redditinc.com/press https://www.redditinc.com/press http://redditmetrics.com/ http://redditmetrics.com/

They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.

Grue3 8y ago

Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?

smacktoward 8y ago
Mastodon has a character limit, but the protocol underlying Mastodon (ActivityPub: http://activitypub.rocks/ http://activitypub.rocks/) doesn't. Adding a character limit was just a design decision on the part of the Mastodon developers to make their app more Twitter-like. There's nothing stopping others from building apps that don't have a character limit, and they would be able to federate with Mastodon and other AP-enabled apps just fine.
- egypturnash 8y ago
  There’s patches floating around to change the limit on Masto, too. My instance limits you to 7777, and requires you to put it behind a CW if it’s more than 777. I know of an instance that gives you unlimited text if it’s behind a CW.
  - scarejunba 8y ago
    What's a CW?
    - kiike 8y ago
      Content warning. Like those spoiler tags in some forums that let you hide or show the actual spoiler.
    - deleted 8y ago
      [deleted]
  - progval 8y ago
    Why require a CW for that? Most clients should auto-collapse long messages now. (Mastodon's web client does).

sodosopa 8y ago

Honest question from a Mastodon user. Is it truly that large? Most of the nodes I'm on remind me of 2006 Twitter, shouting in the dark.

JetSpiegel 8y ago
As opposed to current Twitter, throwing a message-in-a-bottle into a landfill of messages in bottles.

dredmorbius 8y ago

Reddit has 330 MAU. All of Mastodon is somewhat over 2 million users, with an unknown set of nonregistered viewers / readers. It's not a tiny userbase, but it's quite small by present social media standards. http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/general http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/general https://www.redditinc.com/press https://www.redditinc.com/press http://redditmetrics.com/ http://redditmetrics.com/