Le͢ẃ Gr͏ant͡I've had no complaints with my #mastodoninstance but have to admit I've thought about moving to somewhere that has a much more generous #characterlimit than 500. 2,000 would be a much better fit for the stuff I'd like to post and threads are not great in #mastodon - can anyone suggest somewhere with larger limit and bonus points if it's #softwareDevelopment #gaming #gayming or #lgbt / #queer instance?
woe2you@lewgrant I don't mean to yuck your yum but I tend to block instances that allow ridiculous character limits. There's a point where something is no longer microblogging and should be an actual blog post on your blog that I will subscribe to the RSS feed of in a heartbeat if you post long form content that I enjoy.
James BrittTrue. I enjoy Mastodon for the short chunks of information and humor. The likelihood of me stopping to read a blog post that pops up is nil. It seems counter-productive to use something like Mastodon as a blog.
Could be wrong, perhaps such things find their audience and the rest move on.
@jamesbritt @lewgrant I frequently follow POSSE links to posts that interest me, but anything that only exists here should be pithy. Mastodon is a Twitter replacement to me. Anything that demands more words deserves to be on a site the author owns.
Jupiter Rowland@woe2you @James Britt This may come as a surprise to you, but: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. And it has never been only Mastodon. It was neither invented by Eugen Rochko nor exclusively for purist microblogging.
For example, there is also Friendica (https://en.wikipedia.org/Friendica, https://friendi.ca, https://github.com/friendica, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Friendica). It was launched in July, 2010, 15 years ago, five and a half years before Mastodon. It is Facebook-like, but designed to be better than Facebook rather than an all-out clone and to be fully capable of long-form blogging. It has a character limit of 200,000, its culture does not enforce brevity, and it staunchly refuses to ditch its own culture and adopt Mastodon's culture instead. It can also do other things that don't belong into purist microblogging such as bold type, italics, underlines, bullet-point lists and multiple levels of headlines.
Here are lists of Friendica nodes for you to block:
Then there is Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org, https://framagit.org/hubzilla, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hubzilla), first launched in March, 2015, ten years ago, ten months before Mastodon. It's based on Friendica with many more features that make it a CMS as well. It has a character limit of over 16.7 million (maximum size of the database field).
I'm commenting from Hubzilla myself right now.
Here are lists of Hubzilla hubs for you to block:
More recently and from the same family, there are (streams) (https://codeberg.org/streams/streams) from 2021 and Forte (https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte) from 2024. Again, they are Facebook-like, just like Friendica. Their character limit is over 24 million.
Again, here are lists of servers for you to block:
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #Block #Blocking
For example, there is also Friendica (https://en.wikipedia.org/Friendica, https://friendi.ca, https://github.com/friendica, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Friendica). It was launched in July, 2010, 15 years ago, five and a half years before Mastodon. It is Facebook-like, but designed to be better than Facebook rather than an all-out clone and to be fully capable of long-form blogging. It has a character limit of 200,000, its culture does not enforce brevity, and it staunchly refuses to ditch its own culture and adopt Mastodon's culture instead. It can also do other things that don't belong into purist microblogging such as bold type, italics, underlines, bullet-point lists and multiple levels of headlines.
Here are lists of Friendica nodes for you to block:
- https://friendica.fediverse.observer/list
- https://fedidb.com/software/friendica
- https://rumbly.net/communities?project=friendica
- https://nomad.fedi-verse.hu/communities?project=friendica
- https://streams.elsmussols.net/communities?project=friendica
Then there is Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org, https://framagit.org/hubzilla, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hubzilla), first launched in March, 2015, ten years ago, ten months before Mastodon. It's based on Friendica with many more features that make it a CMS as well. It has a character limit of over 16.7 million (maximum size of the database field).
I'm commenting from Hubzilla myself right now.
Here are lists of Hubzilla hubs for you to block:
- https://hubzilla.fediverse.observer/list
- https://fedidb.com/software/hubzilla
- https://rumbly.net/communities?project=hubzilla
- https://nomad.fedi-verse.hu/communities?project=hubzilla
- https://streams.elsmussols.net/communities?project=hubzilla
More recently and from the same family, there are (streams) (https://codeberg.org/streams/streams) from 2021 and Forte (https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte) from 2024. Again, they are Facebook-like, just like Friendica. Their character limit is over 24 million.
Again, here are lists of servers for you to block:
- https://rumbly.net/communities?type=streams_repository
- https://nomad.fedi-verse.hu/communities?type=streams_repository
- https://streams.elsmussols.net/communities?type=streams_repository
- https://rumbly.net/communities?project=forte
- https://nomad.fedi-verse.hu/communities?project=forte
- https://streams.elsmussols.net/communities?project=forte
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #Block #Blocking
@jupiter_rowland Thank you Stallman, I'm aware of the difference and also use Lemmy for content that's Reddit-shaped instead of Twitter-shaped.
(I'm also aware that it has to come from the GNU/Linux part of Neckbeardia to be Stallman, otherwise it's just sparking "well, akshually").
@woe2you Still, accept my offer of 16 instance lists with dozens upon dozens of instances that may disturb you with long posts because that's what people do there.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Block #Blocking
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Block #Blocking
@jupiter_rowland Sounds like a lot of pre-emptive work when I could just block them as and when they drop a novel in my feed.