mastodon.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

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North Baltic Historical Harp S

Hive mind: I do love Mastodon but I notice that my posts are limited to some 500 characters, which is very short and prevents from sharing about my academic work and field. Yet I see people posting fair long stuff that requires me to scroll down. Definitely far more than 500 characters. How do they do that ? Is there something that escaped me ? ?

@NBHHS This is because of the limits set by your server - on your server (Mastodon.social) there's a 500 limit, but on some others there's not.

Fedi.tips has info on servers here:
fedi.tips/which-server-should-

And, if you wanted to move server, there's info on how to do that here:
fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma

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@RuthSalter thanks a million, Ruth. This server has very good moderation rules, I'll explore if others are like that too and then decide.