Mastodon next release features
Based as always.
I wish they implement hashtags lists
Was requested 4 years ago with over 300 possitive reaction
Cool, let me know when they remove character limits and figure out how to apply language filters to hashtags.
Isn’t character limits an instance setting?
It is, but maybe they mean they want no limit whatsoever on post length.
which, well, if your instance starts sending out megabyte-sized text posts I don’t expect it to stay federated with many others for very long.
I mean, just set the limit to a ridiculously high number then? I’m not aware that Lemmy has any in-built limits, but I could be wrong.
I believe that Mastodon instances with limits only link to external posts that exceed the limit, they don’t display the whole post.
Of course you can always run into network limits if you get huge posts, but that applies to everything and doesn’t have anything in particular to do with Mastodon.
You can modify the code but there’s no “setting” in vanilla Mastodon. The request has been denied by Mr. Rochko himself, despite protests from the greater community.
you can modify the limit settings in the /validators/status_length_validator.rb file and reboot mastodon :) i did that and now i have 1000 char limit
Character limits are a feature, not a bug. I liked the limit of 160 characters (with tags) on Twitter. It’s because of SMS, but called for brevity and clarity.
Except it’s meaningless because if people want to put more than that they just create a “thread” of posts that I then break my brain trying to reassemble. They do nothing but make the experience worse.
It also creates turmoil because people aren’t actually able to explain themselves properly.
Also why does it tag everyone involved in the conversation automatically in every post? Why is that necessary?
It’s just stupid on a fundamental level, sorry.
Threads in microblogs baffle me too. Doubly if replies occur mid-thread. Tagging should be limited to the person being replied to and the OP, not everyone.
i would love them to give us nuclear blocking that actually works across all instances (granted there are less jerks on fediverse but it doesn’t hurt to plan)
Oh, so the good idea from Bluesky of Starter Packs is now fully in Mastodon. I know that repost-quotes are in too, which is fun.
Or Circles from Google+.
I wanted to like Google+, but the way they forced it into YouTube ticked me off.
I remember being 13 and just wanting to use YouTube but I had to have google+ 🤷
Wait, you didn’t just set up a second account that had a 1970 birthdate?
I was an honest kid
