Instances describe their ambience in various ways: gaming, lgbtq, coding, artists, more. Have any ever emphasized the length of their allowed posts? I randomly chose a server that happens to allow posts of 100,000 characters more than the default 500 (I chose it because it has a short name), but I don't recall that being mentioned anywhere. Just #wondering.

#Mastodon #characterLimit #characterLimits

fuck fucking instances with fucking 500 #characterLimits. this isn't fucking #Twitter. stop forcing us to fucking fit our fucking thoughts into fucking "shouting headline" chunks. you can have a fucking extended character limit without fucking using it! GOD does this fucking piss me off!!

I'm considering adding another #account that will concentrate on #bookish topics. I would appreciate #Suggestions for related #Instances that have longer #CharacterLimits. #CharacterLimit #Accounts #FediTips #Books #BookReviews #BookArt #Typography #BookishTopics

I have seen users (I think users and not admins) exceed the 500 characters for a toot. Is this truly possible? #characterLimits #mastodonpost

By default, Mastodon has a 500 character limit for posts.

However, you may have seen posts with more than 500 characters.

This is possible because Mastodon is just one type of server on the Fediverse. Many of the accounts you interact with on here may be using different server types with different character limits.

For example, there are modified "forked" versions of Mastodon such as Glitch (https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/) and Hometown (https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown) which allow server admins to easily change the character limits.

There are also completely different kinds of servers such as Friendica (https://friendi.ca) which have much larger default limits.

Because the Fediverse uses a common technical standard for communication, different kinds of servers talk to each other seamlessly, and you won't necessarily notice which server types people use. (I'm on a server running Glitch Mastodon, which is how this post can be so long.)

#Mastodon #Fediverse #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits

There seems to be an ongoing attack on Fediverse infrastructure.

Recently we learned that the website https://fediverse.space is down.

This website helped people find a Fedi instance right for them. It showed where the instance was based, whether #Cloudflare, toot #characterLimits, #uptime, #closedRegistrations and more.

This comes after various devs have been said to have been attacked. These can be seen as attacks on Fedi.

Do we strive to keep #fediInfrastructure up? The Gitlab for…(1/2)

✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are

URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.

There is no need to use a link shortener!

#FediTips #MastoTips #LinkShortener #LinkShorteners #URLShortener #URLShorteners #CharacterLimits #Mastodon

Excellent idea, @Ca_Gi

Maybe name it 'Getting Started with Fediverse'?

Consider #privacy-friendly instances that work over #Tor Privacy Browser (or Tor VPN)? (includes uploading #images/#videos. Perhaps warn people about #Cloudflare instances & #centralisation.

Also we suggest including #instances that have 1000 or more #characterLimits. The #characterLimit of 500 wastes users' time because we must remove characters or split posts when discussing topics in any detail.