@resynth1943@banana.dog That, not having the STUPID default 500 characters limit is GOOD on my books.

I have raised the flag and went out to push for more, but a lot of the admin people falt out refuse to consider it. Reasons ?

- 500 chars is hard coded into the mastodon source, and changing to a different value is NOT trivial -- this shows up in various source files, and it needs to be hand edited anytime there's an update or upgraded version of Mastodon.

- The Pleroma lead developer posted an issue on masto github, requesting that this be changed, to post to a single location, in a config file like any sane person would think it should, right? Eugen refused, and closed the issue. 😞

- a lot of those guys were Twitter users for years, and are used to the ridiculous one line tweet style, I find that inane and despicable. But their instance, their rules. I move on, find a better one.

Really there's no reason to limit it so low.

But Eugen's reasoning is mostly aesthetic -- he argued that LOONG posts would pollute the look of a Mastodon instance Feed, obscuring other content.

Silly thing, but he's the de facto dictator on masto dev, so... 😜

But I can always protest. 😉