@RL_Dane I think the current Mastodon Web UI makes it easy to miss a thread (especially when properly-formatted), so don't mind the thread one too much :-)
@proactiveservices@RL_Dane Habitual long-thread posters on Mastodon annoy me. It's not like they couldn't move to some other instance/platform with a higher character limit and make things easier for everyone.
I do have accounts on instances with large character limits, but I have reasons for sticking with fosstodon. I haven't found a long-character-count instance with the same kind of community AND focus of fosstodon: @thereslife is a great GlitchSoc instance, but with a very different focus, and while @polymaths has a truly wonderful community, it is much smaller than @fosstodon
I do avoid posting threads most of the time, though. ;)
Honestly, I think the 500-char limit is dumb. Let people express themselves, already.
#GlitchSoc handles this very well, both allowing 5000+ char posts, and abbreviating long ones in the UI when browsing.
140 characters was novel (and an implementation limitation due to SMS). 280 was iffy. 500 is just weird. Long enough to not develop a habit of brevity, short enough to be really annoying.
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Mastodon's a microblogging platform, 500 characters is already a bit much IYAM. A better platform would be one for long-form posts like write.as. @kim
I just don't think "microblogging" means that you have to be limited to a set number of characters. I think it's totally valid to have an emphasis on short responses, but enforcing that with character limits is just weird.
I mean farcebook has character limits in excess of 64k last I checked, and still people only type <100 word responses 90+% of the time.
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