@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

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?

@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 @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.

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

@Z_Zed_Zed

I do (write a blog). I tried federating it, in the hopes that WordPress would do what it does on my site and truncate with a link.

But no. So now I don't even follow myself but toot a short form with a link, by hand.

Sigh.

@FediTips

@EricLawton @Z_Zed_Zed

There should be settings on WordPress that let you decide if it shows as full length or truncated or just a link? Do they not appear for you?

I haven't seen any. I'll look closer.

@Z_Zed_Zed

There are instructions here:

https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/

Are you using the plugin through an indie hosted wordpress, or are you on wordpress.com?

WordPress: Turning your blog into a Fediverse server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

@FediTips.

Not a business account, so no plug-ins.

"On the plug-in for independently hosted sites (or *wordpress.com sites with business/commerce plans*), you can choose how much of your posts are shown on Mastodon"

So that's why I don't see an option. 😥

Thanks anyway.

wordpress.com
@Z_Zed_Zed

@Doug Grinbergs Well, by the way of how things are, you can write short posts even when you can write longer posts. But you cannot write long posts when you can only write short posts.

When I have a thought, I don't like knowing that I have to limit myself to whatever limit that provider imposes (whether you call it Twitter, X, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky etc.) - I just can't. Yes, post threading does exist, but it just doesn't feel right. I still have to cut my message in a way that it fits some arbitrary limits that do not belong to me. So I don't get it - why does such a limit even exist? What is going to happen if I get past the 500 characters mark, even by one single character? Is the world going to end? Will I get a rare disease and go to hospital?

I don't think so.

Everyone is free to read my content, and read how much they want. If you don't/no longer want to read my content, scroll away. There's surely some more interesting stuff below mine. ☺

@Fedi.Tips