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  1. Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] ·
    CW: Hubzilla main dev complains about Mastodon users cutting long posts into threads; CW: long (over 1,250 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, quote-post
    How much of a nuisance have Mastodon users working around Mastodon's hard-coded 500-character limit become, at least from a non-Mastodon point of view?

    Enough of a nuisance for the main developer of Hubzilla to speak up against it.

    Mario Vavti wrote the following post Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:47:16 +0200 Dear people of the Fediverse,
    Please STOP tearing your carefully crafted essays to pieces. This is no longer necessary. If your preferred instance does not allow this, consider asking your instance admin to increase the limit or switch to a different instance. Besides, it is so last decade :face_with_rolling_eyes:

    See? If Mastodon users can complain about "long posts" from outside Mastodon, namely anything that exceeds 500 characters, then those of us who did not come into the Fediverse via Mastodon can complain about Mastodon users chopping long posts up into lots of little pieces.

    Little nitpick: It has never been necessary. Friendica and Hubzilla have had a nearly unlimited character count since before Mastodon came with 500 characters.

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    #cwfediversemeta #characterlimits #cwlongpostmeta #characterlimit #fediversemeta #longpostmeta
  2. Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] ·
    CW: Surprisingly for many of you, there are indeed people on Mastodon who have a problem with long posts over 500 characters; CW: long post (over 900 characters, over 1,200 in Mastodon count), quote-post, 19 hashtags (including 13 to trigger filters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta, character count meta, character limit meta, over-500-characters meta, sarcasm
    "Write your posts as long as you want," they say.

    "Don't be apologetic about it," they say.

    "Literally everyone in the whole Fediverse has gotten used to posts over 500 characters, and nobody minds anymore," they say.

    "Literally everyone on Mastodon is perfectly okay with all of Hubzilla's antics," they say.

    "Nobody wants the Fediverse to only be vanilla Mastodon," they say.

    Oh, really? Then I've probably faked this shared post here.

    Citizen.Coping wrote the following post Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:24:21 +0100 @Gargron

    Being able to mute or filter posts that exceed 500 characters would be great.

    Search is not good because it returns too many dissertations.

    #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LongPosts #LongToots #LongPostMeta #CWLongPostMeta #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #QuotePost #QuoteBoost #CharacterCount #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #500Characters #Sarcasm
    #cwfediversemeta #characterlimits #cwlongpostmeta #charactercount #characterlimit #fediversemeta