@starshine 5000 character limit or whatever the heck i want go brrrr

@starshine limit on my Akkoma instance is 2^64 symbols)

@starshine return to 69420 character limit

@starshine 1024 character limit here, decent enough imo, though yeah sometimes might need more, but that's kinda rare

@starshine It’s better to write a blog post (I use Medium) and share the link wherever you like. It is far easier to read than a thread and will get indexed by search engines. Plus, you can easily make edits later to fix typos or add more context. Medium and other blog systems could add Fediverse support. Tumblr may have it already.

@starshine


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@starshine What about having a blog, and linking to it, I think every time I see this.

@starshine Sorry, I like threads. You can do a toot, then extend the thought later. I can boost the thread head toot if I want share it, or direct people to a specific toot if it's relevant. I'd thread regardless of character limit.
I like responding to parts of a thread. Like the overall message, but want to query one element? Reply to that toot.
Mostly, I *really* like when someone says "Hi, here's my 1/n toot on radical cheese-making..." and I can dive in. If not, I can scroll on by... 🧵

@starshine God, this really hit me.

@starshine @chucker I couldn’t understand the second paragraph at all.

@starshine i'm surprised that some people didn't make like a blogger account and just posted a link

@starshine maybe i should nicely ask my instance admin for an increase

@starshine mastodon instance owners when they find out you can change the max character setting for your instance 🤯

@starshine This is funny, well done, but a character limit is Good Actually.

@starshine long threads (like, 10+ posts) are indeed silly, just write a blog post. But there’s a lot to be said for the character limit forcing people to communicate concisely. So many blog posts are meandering waffle that could be cut in half if the author just got to the point quicker.

@starshine One of the things I've tried doing in recent times, is if I have something particularly long-winded to say, I'll write up a blog post. I'll then pick a quote & post a quick intro with the blog link.

@starshine Just use (tm/mc) Pleroma!

@starshine does it count as a thread if its just an additional thing i realised i wanted to add after the fact?

@starshine Write a blog post, share a link, job done. People still don’t understand Mastodon has no algorithm and doesn’t care if you link to an external website. The thing, too, is that people have been trained to think that social networks and likes are the only things that matter and that anything not on the platform is a waste of time. It will take a lot of work to get back to the golden era of the internet where they own the content if that’s even possible.

@starshine Tusky gets cranky at 1060 characters

@starshine @kkarhan I agree. #Fediverse threads are annoying. I suggest people use another platform (like #Misskey, #WriteFreely or even #WordPress with the #ActivityPub plugin installed) if they need to expand beyond their limit.

@[email protected] you should check wafrn. It does the threads tumblr style, best thing possible in my opinion

#its-buggy-as-hell-tho

@starshine People should just set up blogs

@starshine Twitter has legitimately been the worst thing to happen to the internet since Facebook