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Radio Azureus

In this article Stefano elegante teaches you, how to change the minimum, puny amount of 500 characters per toot, on your Mastodon server to the massive 5000, which all servers should have

Certain things have been changed within the configuration, which means that your previous settings do not work anymore, in case you had increased it already

it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/09

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Instructions on customizing a limit by modifying two files. The first file path is live/app/javascript/mastodon/features/compose/containers/compose_form_container.js , and it needs the line containing maxChars: state.getIn(['server to be changed. The second file path is live/app/validators/status_length_validator.rb , and it needs the line containing MAX_CHARS = 500 to be changed. Finally, run the command RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rai and restart Mastodon services.
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Dmitry Borodaenko

@larsmb #Dorsey's role in selling #Twitter to #PhonyStark, by itself, is enough reason to shun him.

Read #CharacterLimit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac: mastodon.circle.lt/@dmitry/113

Dorsey didn't just roll in his stake in Twitter into Musk's acquisition. He instigated the whole thing, and not just to spite the board that kicked him out. He wanted it to become a #NaziBar and resented people like Vijaya Gadde, Del Harvey, and Yoel Roth who stood in the way.

Hardcover copy of "Character Limit" set upright on a #LoveWhereYouWork carved wood set of a single cube with Twitter logo, backed by a fancy home office setup and a poster of the spaceship Rocinante.
Circle of LightDmitry Borodaenko (@dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt)Attached: 1 image My copy of the #CharacterLimit is here.
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Light🐧⁂

Come to think about it, maybe 🤔 having the character limit raised somewhat is not that beneficial to me, because it only makes me more likely to talk frivolities. 😅 Maybe the constraining nature of having a limited number of characters worked towards my favour by requiring me to think over more carefully what I want to convey in a single toot. 😄

#characterLimit#mastodon
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Aral Balkan

Yay, thanks to @jan being lovely and not shying away from the headache of hosting a forked Mastodon, my instance how has an increased character limit.

This was one of my main bugbears and is going to improve my life. Not having to freaking edit something to squeeze in that one extra character? Yes, please.

If you want Jan to host your own Mastodon instance (maybe an instance for one, just you?), see toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html

toot.io - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting · toot.io - Fully Managed Mastodon Hostingtoot.io is a fully managed Mastodon hosting service.
#mastodon#characterLimit#hosting
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Jupiter Rowland
@Representative Sample Well, Mastodon's internal character limits, 500 characters for posts, 1,500 characters for alt-text, are both hard-coded in a file that is being synced by git. It can be changed, but only by modifying what's essentially the source code.

Mastodon's current culture was established in 2022 by people who came in from Twitter in the first migration wave which started in February when Elon Musk announced his intention to take over Twitter. In this migration wave already, so many people came to Mastodon, especially mastodon.social, that it didn't take long for them to only encounter their own likes and hardly come across anyone who had been Mastodon users before 2022. Thus, they created a culture that was completely independent from pre-2022 Mastodon.

Also, not a single one of them knew what the Fediverse really was. For absolutely all of them, the Fediverse was Mastodon and only Mastodon. Vanilla Mastodon with a hard 500-character limit which, in the light of only 280 characters on Twitter, already felt like a lot to them.

They did not know about Misskey with 3,000 hard-coded characters. Or Pleroma and Akkoma with 5,000 configurable characters. Or the various Misskey forks with configurable limits of several thousands of characters. Nor did they know about Friendica, over five years older than Mastodon, or Hubzilla, a Friendica fork that's still almost four years older than Mastodon at its core. These two don't have any arbitrary character limits at all. And especially, they didn't know that all of these were fully, bidirectionally connected to Mastodon and interacting with Mastodon all the time.

In fact, ever since, it has always taken Mastodon newbies quite a while to even learn about Mastodon instances with modified character limits, not to mention Mastodon forks with configurable character limits.

And so it was those recent Twitter-to-Mastodon newbies who defined a whole new culture, based on vanilla Mastodon 3.x, its features and its limitations, but for the entire Fediverse. This culture was set in stone in late October already when the second migration wave started, and Mastodon newcomers who really settled into Mastodon, rather than wanting another Twitter, have been living this culture ever since.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Friendica #Hubzilla #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta
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Jupiter Rowland
@C.Suthorn :prn:
And note: this toot has more than 500 characters, but comes from mastodon (as you can see), in case you didn't know that toots on mastodon can have more than 500 characters.

I know that. But I also know that not exactly few Mastodon users completely freak out when they see something longer than 500 characters.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #CharacterLimit #500Characters
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Dmitry Borodaenko

Now that everybody's talking about #PhonyStark's phone calls with #Putin, time to remind all y'all that, as revealed in #CharacterLimit by Kate Conger & Ryan Mac, just one day before closing his acquisition of #Twitter, #Musk was $400 million short of the $44 billion he owed, and tried to shake down Twitter board into paying it out of their cache reserves. Mysteriously,¹ he found the money overnight.

¹ When exactly #8vc, a noname firm employing two sons of Putin's oligarchs, join the deal?

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Tom :damnified:

By the way: If you wonder why in v4.3 the character limit customization still needs source code changes (instead of config changes), here's the answer by @andypiper

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

TL;DR: Mastodon is not really fit to support long posts properly (yet). This will maybe change in the future.

Thanks for this short statement, @andypiper !

This rebases #27629 onto a current mastodon version. This commit is made in the contexts of discussions around increasing the character limit at social.coop. Modifying a docker container is conside...
GitHubMAX_POST_CHARS Env Part 2 by boehs · Pull Request #30091 · mastodon/mastodonBy boehs
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