The creator of Mastodon said that he isn’t going to add an option to set post length limits. I briefly tried to change it and wasn’t able to make it work.
Comment on Firefish Mastodon alternative
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Okay, I’m gonna bite. Why would they create a new one instead of working toward improving Mastodon?
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 1 year ago
FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
It’s not configurable through the UI, but if you’re the admin of an instance you can change the character limit with some fairly simple source code tweaksm
ram@bookwormstory.social 1 year ago
Firefish is a fork of Misskey which predates Mastodon by 2 years. As for why one would fork Misskey into Firefish or make Mastodon, some of the rationale for that is explained in the Fork a repo page by GitHub.
You can ask the developer of Mastodon personally why he didn’t just make Misskey better, or the lead developer of Firefish why they didn’t just contribute to Misskey or Mastodon, but fundamentally the platforms are very different even if they’re inter-operable, and this comes down to the actual design of the platforms.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 1 year ago
I think that’s good to be aware of. The Wikipedia article mentioned that the APIs are not compatible. As long is the interoperability is good I think it works well enough.