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May I just say that not being able to set your own fucking character limit on your own fucking Mastodon instance without having to fucking fork fucking Mastodon is a fucking pain in the fucking arse.

Thank you for listening and here’s wishing you a lovely day.

#mastodon

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in reply to Aral Balkan

It's not an appropriate way of telling us that. A little less (zero) f-words?
in reply to Frans Super

@apenkop I’m so sorry, Frans. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will immediately take action to ensure that you are never subjected to such unacceptable language in the future.
in reply to Frans Super

@Frans Super

Actually, I find Aral's comment very much agreeable, in it's current form, nonetheless.

@Aral Balkan

in reply to Aral Balkan

and it's also totally stupid since the field which stores the post is a text field which can hold 64k of data
in reply to Aral Balkan

@Aral Balkan

Do you remember #Diaspora?

Have you ever tried it?

It does a lot of sane and interesting things, It was glissed because it was made by a bunch of #flossbros (too much leftist), then everybody called the experts and they came out with ActivityPub, which is a a W3C project, that means also the #TechBros are indirectly involved.

Maybe it is time to come back and rediscover it... 🤔

in reply to Aral Balkan

@Aral Balkan

I still find it the most usable and rational social media platform, focused on long post and neat threads organization.

Not sure what you consider unusable, I think the same of anything is twitter/mastodon alike.

in reply to ❄️ freezr ❄️

@freezr Might have improved since I looked. Will take another look. At the time it started out by making you choose hashtags. This was many years ago :)
in reply to Aral Balkan

@Aral Balkan

It still starts this way... And I love it because it is content focused.

I started with it in 2016 and hasn't changed that much, so try it only if your experience was before...

in reply to Aral Balkan

You are more than welcome to get an account on my single user instance, where character limit can be changed easily :)

Being Gnusocial though, you may find it sub-optimal in some regards...

in reply to aab

@aab Thanks, that’s very kind of you. I’ll likely stay on Mastodon until account migration works seamlessly.
@aab
in reply to Aral Balkan

I wanted to install my own instance just to get rid of the ridiculous small message length, and now you're saying it cannot even be customized from the admin panel : It's just mad they don't allow that natively in their code. Very disapointed.