Comment on Mastodon features

• 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.

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  • 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.

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• 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.

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  • 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

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, that is what I said.

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