Mastodawn

...and this is done! Your Mastodon clients *should* pick up the new Social.coop character limit of 1000; this might require a reload, and you *might* see 500 momentarily when you start composing a post prior to it updating to 1000, but it is our understanding that this should work for everyone no matter the client you use from this moment on.

This fulfills the community intention originally expressed in the 2024 Loomio vote: https://www.loomio.com/d/C4HKmTOa/proposal-to-revisit-extending-the-character-limit-for-posts/.

This took some time due to competing priorities and us wanting to test the solution thoroughly before trying it in our production instance. Thank you for your patience!

Proposal to revisit extending the character limit for posts

In 2022, a proposal to extend the post limit limit was opened, and while it yielded fruitful discussion, it never entered a formal voting stage. I frequently find myself running against this post limit, and many other instances that we federate with have a limit that is much higher.To kick start discussion, here are my notes on the previous thread:Pros: Many servers already have this Very little storage burden Makes it easier to post longer things Cons: Additional maintenance burden as we would need to switch to a fork (which could have it's own pros/cons), or apply a minimal patch to the mastodon codebase to extend the limit (Basically just replacing a few `500`s with whatever `x` we decide) If people don't like longer posts, the local timeline could be marginally worse (the federated timeline already experiences this). I will open the floor for discussion and then begin a voting phase. For clarity, the two questions at hand are Should social.coop extend the character limit? If so, what should it become?

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