Comment on Mastodon features

artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t character limits an instance setting?

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  • Jayjader@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can modify the code but there’s no “setting” in vanilla Mastodon. The request has been denied by Mr. Rochko himself.

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    • emaechler@lemmy.maechler.cloud ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, that is what I said.

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