Small rant about small character limits in fedi, like #Mastodon's 500 limit, just because I had this discussion recently.I think it makes no sense for the #fediverse. This is a criticism towards #ActivityPub as well, which defines notes as short posts,...

Lutin Discret

@atomicpoet @panos here we are confusing two things: "fediverse" and "the part of fediverse that propose microblogging". I don't by the "fediverse can be anything" stuff and I see it more like different stuff/experiences. "threadiverse" for example is a thing. Microblogging fedi is another made by people who want to read short posts. The blogging fedi is another. (1/2)

Lutin Discret

@atomicpoet @panos It's not a whole. Different tools, different people, different expectations, different UX, different content and different cultures. Mastodon will never support events like Mobilizon does and that's ok. Its character limit is not a limit but a feature coming from a culture that values brievety, witness, laconism...

It's ok that the fedi is kind of split: we should not view the fedi as an everything app or it will fail

Lutin Discret

@atomicpoet @panos It's not a whole. Different tools, different people, different expectations, different UX, different content and different cultures. Mastodon will never support events like Mobilizon does and that's ok. Its character limit is not a limit but a feature coming from a culture that values brievety, witness, laconism...

It's ok that the fedi is kind of split: we should not view the fedi as an everything app or it will fail (2/2)

Jeff Sikes

@panos I’ve been thinking about this post the past day or so. I agree just sum it up and have a read more button. But! Reading a long post isn’t always comfortable in all apps. Tiny fonts, line spacing is bad, etc.

If apps could have a “read long posts as article” option with separate style settings that would be superb.

BeAware :fediverse:

@hackbyte @panos @atomicpoet To be fair, both of the people you replied to aren't on mastodon ‍️

hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

@BeAware @atomicpoet @panos Right .. but both seem to be forks and present essentially the same dysfunctional interface.

Chris Trottier

@hackbyte @panos @BeAware Akkoma is not a fork of Mastodon; it is a fork of Pleroma.

Catodon is not a fork of Mastodon; it is a fork of Firefish – which is, itself, a fork of Misskey.

BeAware :fediverse:

@atomicpoet @hackbyte @panos

hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

@atomicpoet @BeAware @panos O.k. i stand corrected.. Except for presenting the same UX overall.. mhh

BeAware :fediverse:

@hackbyte @atomicpoet @panos have you gone to these folks' instances? to me, they don't really look anything like Mastodon, but maybe you just haven't been on Mastodon in awhile, so you don't really remember what it looks like? ‍️