@markstos @nazokiyoubinbou

Yeah, this seems to be what Gargron had in mind with imposing the 500 char limit.

Even servers running Glitch etc often don't allow maximum possible character limits because the admins still want to keep posts brief.

I guess main problem is that official Mastodon doesn't let the admin (easily) choose the character limit for their own server.

@nazokiyoubinbou As a reader, I appreciate the limit. I open Mastodon expecting a stream of short-form posts to scroll through.

if there started to be a lot more longer form posts with “read more” links, it would have a different vibe.

@nazokiyoubinbou @potungthul

Hey Potnung, what are you using to view Mastodon? The web? An app?

If you log in through your server's website for example, that would automatically show "read more" links on longer posts.

@potungthul It's automatically on large posts as far as I know in the mainline Mastodon ource itself at this point. If you're not seeing it it may be your instance chooses not to do it. Though your guess is as good as mine.

Unless you're defining wordy posts as anything that's bigger than you like.

@nazokiyoubinbou

Please do tell me about this system that collapses long posts. How do I activate it and get out of having to scroll forever to get past the wordy posts?

I will try that out.
Currently, I am on #Fedilab, a very handy and pretty powerful app that I have grown to love, so most of the time I will still use it. But if this feature is available for most people on the web, maybe I should ask for it on this app.

@nazokiyoubinbou

@MsDropbear42 [venera] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘 great list of resources. I would also add the videos of @anubis2814. These really made me get a grasp on how Friendica works and figure out its basic functions. I managed to create a page and a group as well.

Anubis seems to be reworking on the tutorials, as there have been a lot of changes to Friendica since the original videos were made 4 years ago, but if anyone wants to see how they can join, here's an explainer:

Also on Peertube:

peertube.stream/w/7cntKfMgHqX9…

@Fedi.Tips @Carthage

@lisamelton

For those who like to know what limit an instance has, a simple powershell can do the query.
```
$site = Invoke-RestMethod “https://kolektiva.social/api/v2/instance”

$site.configuration.statuses | fl *
```
(Be sure to replace the “kolektiva.social” with your instance URI)

This was an incredibly important reason behind my instance choice, as I feel the Twitter limit thing is hugely harmful to discourse and promotes sniping over engagement. I also have a general disdain for the tl;dr crowd.

@anubis2814 Thank you as well for the wonderful resources. Don't worry about it. Work on it while you can 😁 looking forward for the next ones whenever will they come. 🙂

@Fedi.Tips @Carthage

@MsDropbear42 [venera] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘 no worry, you're welcome 🤗😁

@anubis2814 @Fedi.Tips @Carthage

I do try to cover/mention Friendica on this account and on the website, but at the moment I'm waiting for them to finish doing their reporting system before promoting them fully. (There's currently no way of reporting posts in Friendica's interface, it's discussed here on their Github site: github.com/friendica/friendica…).

Would be great if this could be implemented!

Feature Request: implement Moderation system · Issue #8724 · friendica/friendica

I think it would be good to have a moderation system similar to Mastodon where you can report problematic content, an admin will be notified and decide what to do with that reported post: warn the ...

^GitHub

@Fedi.Tips There is already a reporting feature in Friendica, in the latest stable version (2023.12). But I'm not sure what the admin can do after reporting.

@MsDropbear42 [venera] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘 @Carthage

@petrescatraian @Tunisia

I asked @hypolite about that but they said it wasn't quite ready yet?

I hope I'm wrong!