Good evening, friends of #BSDcafe and the #Fediverse!
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A user privately asked me why I increased the character limit to 5000.
In general, I believe brevity is a great skill, but reducing a text to "a few" characters can be limiting. The choice of 500 characters is purely from the Mastodon Devs, but other software in the Fediverse doesn't have this limitation. Even blogging platforms like Plume exceed this limit by far, and Mastodon easily supports much higher limits.
BSD Cafe aims to be a place of free expression, and I don't want to impose overly strict constraints.
With every Mastodon update, I'll make sure to check that the limit remains, and if necessary, I'll patch the relevant sources to maintain the current level.
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