I'm considering moving instances again, this time to kolektiva.social..
Because they have lots of cool lgbt emojis but mostly because I really dislike the 500 character limit here!
Nothing wrong with chaos.social, and I like the management, but that character limit is against my principle that things should be allowed to have depth..
And the downside people sometimes mention, "I don't want to read long essays" is not really a proper argument in my opinion, because first of all, most toots
Update: multiple frens pointed out some downsides to kolektiva, so I might have to go on another search for a better instance.. it's hard!
* 1000+ char limit
* fancy emojis
* NOT federated with threads
* trustworthy management/not too small
* ideally, storage in Europe..
@bazkie weeeeeeell, you might want to consider: https://masto.host/ :) plus, @hugo does great work in general :D (now if only it was possible to change character limit as well )
@bazkie @hugo yeah, it really really REALLY should be! i seriously hope they'll add it eventually (soon, preferably) ... that, and proper profile migration, i need my posts to go with me. if it wasn't for that i would've moved to my instance like 2 years ago (that's where my bot is, and lots of other people, lol)
To be fair, the change is reasonably simple and persists across upgrades.
Here are the instructions I followed to take twoot.space up to 5K characters:
https://fouquet.me/2023/09/22/mastodon-char-limit
(However, I much prefer the configurable character count of GoToSocial. There's no post editing on that yet, although it's on the outstanding milestones list.)
@HauntedOwlbear @bazkie @hugo oh, no, it IS a simple change, absolutely! the problem is that we don't have access to any of that when we're doing managed hosting
@HauntedOwlbear @bazkie @hugo unfortunately not still hoping Hugo at least adds that eventually to the masto.host user panel :P
@lashman @HauntedOwlbear @hugo I think that would potentially break a lot of automated update stuff so he probably doesn't want to go there lol
he could add the character 'fix' manually as an exception to his rule of sticking to the official code.. but I also understand he doesn't want to make these kinds of exceptions :)
because in the end that kind of thing will always increase the chance of things breaking and costing him more time to manage stuff..
@bazkie @HauntedOwlbear @hugo yeah, you're probably right