Maybe I should move to a Mastodon instance where I can post more than 500 characters. This limit annoys me to no end for English.

Chinese on the other hand, 500 characters can possibly contain 10x more information within the same limit... much less of an issue to be honest. This speaks that "characters" limit is quite arbitrary 🤷 Systems like this usually use "bytes" limit which in some way makes better sense after all. A Han character is 3 bytes in UTF-8, which is more "balanced".