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   MachsAnders (machsanders@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 21:51:03 JST MachsAnders

   • Cliff

   @CliffWade considering what this usually is intended for, I'm totally happy with 500. I always hate to see posts where I have to scroll, it's not supposed to be about publishing books, or is it? Most times I silence accounts that do that kind of posts.

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 21:51:01 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Cliff

     @MachsAnders It can be avoided if the Mastodon® software will support "Article" type. Maybe, if a post is more than 500 characters (since it has become the default, even Threads is 500 and Bluesky is planning on increasing to 500 as well), the software will ask the user to choose between "auto-thread" or "Article type".

     The "Article" type is better IMO. It publishes the entirety of the content as a single post but it's forcefully collapsed. Other Fediverse software already support it.

     It's different from the workaround that Wordpress, Drupal, WriteFreely, and Plume all have: posting a summary and a link to read the rest of it. Or, like the other Mastodon software forks, they added collapse if it's more than 500 characters.

     @CliffWade

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     mat (mat@friendica.exon.name)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 00:39:47 JST mat

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     • Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣
     • Cliff
     @youronlyone @cliffwade @MachsAnders Yes, and the distinction between a comment and an article is whether or not you're participating in a conversation. Mastodon is a place to have conversations, but that's not all I want from the Fediverse.