What's the post character count limit for your instance on Mastodon?

Cliff

Meaning, when you make a post here on Mastodon, how many characters per post can you type?

For example, currently #AllThingsTech has the default Mastodon 500 character count limit.

If your instance has more than a 1,000 character count limit, please comment and let me know.

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

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MachsAnders

@CliffWade considering what this usually is intended for, I'm totally happy with 500. I always hate to see posts where I have to scroll, it's not supposed to be about publishing books, or is it? Most times I silence accounts that do that kind of posts.

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

@MachsAnders It can be avoided if the Mastodon software will support "Article" type. Maybe, if a post is more than 500 characters (since it has become the default, even Threads is 500 and Bluesky is planning on increasing to 500 as well), the software will ask the user to choose between "auto-thread" or "Article type".

The "Article" type is better IMO. It publishes the entirety of the content as a single post but it's forcefully collapsed. Other Fediverse software already support it.

It's different from the workaround that Wordpress, Drupal, WriteFreely, and Plume all have: posting a summary and a link to read the rest of it. Or, like the other Mastodon software forks, they added collapse if it's more than 500 characters.

@CliffWade

Len

@cliffwade 5000! It's nice.

Cliff

@andycarolan Can you tell me what the character limit per post is on social.lol please?

Matthew Exon

@youronlyone @cliffwade @MachsAnders Yes, and the distinction between a comment and an article is whether or not you're participating in a conversation. Mastodon is a place to have conversations, but that's not all I want from the Fediverse.

Andy Carolan :prami:

@CliffWade I believe it’s 500 characters. At least, that’s what Ivory reports the limit as.

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

Hubzilla, streams, and forte have no defined character limit, but may limit the size of incoming federated posts/comments. The default import limit is 200k - and posts/comments up to 24M can be stored in the database.