Isn’t character limits an instance setting?
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artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
Cool, let me know when they remove character limits and figure out how to apply language filters to hashtags.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 months ago
It is, but maybe they mean they want no limit whatsoever on post length.
which, well, if your instance starts sending out megabyte-sized text posts I don’t expect it to stay federated with many others for very long.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 months ago
I mean, just set the limit to a ridiculously high number then? I’m not aware that Lemmy has any in-built limits, but I could be wrong.
I believe that Mastodon instances with limits only link to external posts that exceed the limit, they don’t display the whole post.
Of course you can always run into network limits if you get huge posts, but that applies to everything and doesn’t have anything in particular to do with Mastodon.
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
You can modify the code but there’s no “setting” in vanilla Mastodon. The request has been denied by Mr. Rochko himself.
emaechler@lemmy.maechler.cloud 2 months ago
you can modify the limit settings in the /validators/status_length_validator.rb file and reboot mastodon :) i did that and now i have 1000 char limit
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yes, that is what I said.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 months ago
Character limits are a feature, not a bug. I liked the limit of 160 characters (with tags) on Twitter. It's because of SMS, but called for brevity and clarity.
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
Except it’s meaningless because if people want to put more than that they just create a “thread” of posts that break my brain trying to reassemble. They do nothing but make the experience worse.
It also creates turmoil because people aren’t actually able to explain themselves properly.
Also why does it read everyone involved in the conversation automatically in every post? Why is that necessary?
It’s just stupid on a fundamental level, sorry.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 months ago
Threads in microblogs baffle me too. Doubly if replies occur mid-thread. Tagging should be limited to the person being replied to and the OP, not everyone.