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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 12:54:27 JST jwz

   There is no rational reason for Mastodon to limit posts to 500 characters by default.

   If the limit was 100s of KB, people who still wanted to divide every thought up into a thread still could; nothing stopping them.

   But if someone wanted to post a gigantic essay, they also could, and I'd see a little "More >>" link and I could ignore them faster.

   We have decades of history proving that length limits do not make people concise: they just make people post threads.

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   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     tree (treeico@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 16:05:42 JST tree

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     @jwz I don't know if this is just me but I would always rather see a 4000 word post than an 8 post thread, so much easier to read.

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 16:15:58 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • tree
     @treeico @jwz https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/5697
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 16:56:47 JST jwz

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     • Eugen Rochko
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     @lain @treeico Well @Gargron's response there is just asinine.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 16:56:47 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
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     @jwz @lain @treeico Okay.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 03:58:15 JST jwz

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     • Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸

     @BlippyTheWonderSlug Every time someone says "THIS! IS! MICROBLOGGING!" I just hear:

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 (blippythewonderslug@social.cologne)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 03:58:17 JST Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸

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     @jwz
     😜 And another thing...

     I "grew up" on the 250 char limit at Shitter, and was blown away that I have DOUBLE that, here.

     This is a microblog platform.

     IIRC, there are full-blown blogging/word processing platforms in #HephalumpWorld, as well as video sharing, and most other "common" services, that are federated.

     To me, it kinda like asking "why aren't there more pumpkins in the meat cooler?"

     They're in another part of this same "supermarket."