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In that 99% of projects get less than 100 users and like 3 stars on GitHub sure I guess that's a win. But if winning is becoming the new preferred destination f
by tracerbulletx 4y ago
In that 99% of projects get less than 100 users and like 3 stars on GitHub sure I guess that's a win. But if winning is becoming the new preferred destination for microblogging or social broadcasting it seems like it took a shot and sputtered out before the finish line.
- Hamuko 4y agoMastodon isn't a microblog though? As far as I know, the maximum message length is basically limitless.
- Groxx 4y agoThe default is 500 chars iirc, but yeah. Entirely configurable (and many modify it in practice), and most servers will pull in much larger ones than they allow to be published, so you can get a novel in your feed if you follow people who do that.
- aprilnya 4y agoMastodon is meant to be for microblogging (a la Twitter), but there is other software that accesses the same federated network (called the “Fediverse”) that focuses on other things, like long blogs (a la Medium), pictures (a la Instagram), etc… (There are forks of Mastodon that increase the message length but on vanilla Mastodon it’s hardcoded to 500. But the fediverse itself doesn’t have a limitation like that, it’s a Mastodon thing)
- waboremo 4y agoI think your expectations might just be skewed. To be the largest decentralized communications platform is quite substantial. You're expecting it to dethrone centralized platforms but that's a gigantic additional hurdle, one nobody has been able to reach.