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Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?
by 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 agoMastodon 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 agoThere’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 agoWhat's a CW?
- kiike 8y agoContent warning. Like those spoiler tags in some forums that let you hide or show the actual spoiler.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- progval 8y agoWhy require a CW for that? Most clients should auto-collapse long messages now. (Mastodon's web client does).