Post limits
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@julian i can see this being an issue particularly for mastodon participants who have to deal with 500-character limits :x
you might want to maybe consider a heuristic that allows or merges in self-replies within a certain time window into a single post? idk, just a thought
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@[email protected] yes... For now I removed the limitation for remote content but that's not particularly secure.
What might be better is moving it to the post queue instead of denying it outright. Then an admin could approve it later and the content won't be lost.
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@trwnh @julian
Some #mastodon #instances seem to have a higher character limit
like for example
https://infosec.exchange
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It's often a bit difficult to ascertain whether mastodon instances are deployments of the actual mastodon upstream or one of the myriad forks improving upon mastodon's limited inherent capabilities out of the box.
Some of the notables are:
- Hometown
- Glitch-Soc
- littleforest - Running instance example HERE
I won't add an endless list and although many of the features added are shared in some way between many of the forks, they're not universally adopted across the spectrum of forked projects. Things like variable per post character limits and Markdown are quite common amongst most, there's also Local only posts, OAuth 2, Quote Posts, etc., that are shared by just some of them.
The various online database tools like Fediverse Observer, FediDB, and Fedilist, etc., also either endeavor to ascertain which of these forks are attributed to each instance to varying degrees of success (and concern for such distinctions), or otherwise just lump them all together as mastodon stats. You can compare between these three online resources especially with respect to sorting by upstream or forks and compare results for your favorite tool.
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@tallship
thank you for the amazing explanation & resources!Love how so many people put effort to explain the #Fediverse to new recruits
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Oh, thank you very much! Sentiments such as yours are what inspires many toward this endeavor.
Just so folks don't actually misconstrue my sometimes seemingly unfair characterizations of masto itself, I do point out in a few pinned posts that it's a quite stable and capable platform, notwithstanding other feature based shortcomings and the huge footprint (in terms of systems resources) it requires to run.
The other main gripe that I personally have is that the group behind masto itself have continuously attempted to brand it as the end-all be-all of the Fediverse (obviously patently false) by virtue of um.... not sharing the wealth of the huge diaspora of available alternatives, and also their tendency to market and fulfill its destiny as yet another monolithic silo.
Truth be told, when compared with other Fediverse platforms, most are built with the intention of being able to run on pretty much any UNIX machine with limited resources effectively, especially considering smolweb and single user self-hosted philosophies; masto, on the other hand, doesn't even really statistically come into its own (with respect to the huge amount of systems resources it requires, comparatively) until about the 20,000 user mark - they don't tout these specs much anymore, it's not really conducive to their mission, but simply reviewing the data at Fedivese.Observer here reveals that this particular instance (their flagship instance), has a total of more than 1.9 million users ("total_users": 1948782, as of this writing).
I wanted to offer this information on my take on things because I'm about to refer you to a resource that is really, really good, but it's also one that I won't normally recommend to people because IMO it tends to either glorify or focus way too much on the masto brand itself. Truth be told, it is a very excellent resource to learn about the Fediverse itself if you can get past all the masto brown-nosing.
https://Fedi.Tips - operated by https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips who you can also follow from your own Fediverse account
Again, thanks for the positive encouragement, despite my sometimes abrasive presentation
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #ActivityPub
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