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I've been 'inhabiting' mastodon.social since about the beginning. I've often been frustrated by the limitations imposed by 500 characters of text.

It's just not enough to really express a literate view without splitting up a post among several posts.

Clearly, there are ways to circumvent the limitation, which illuminates it as a futile attempt to control the expression of others.

I know that was never the intention of Mastodon developers. I will reserve judgement as concerns Twitter.

Anyway, since the beginning of the 'great exodus' of mastodon.social users to their own community instances, I've been trying to sort out where I 'belong'.

Well, actually it just might be here :)

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[–] lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well, welcome. I find it hard to replace mastodon with lemmy though as I think they're not really comparable, except the activitypub part. On mastodon for example based on your message I would have followed you, that's not possible here.

But if it suits you, it's all that matters😃

[–] sparseMatrix@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like a pretty good feature request XD by no means do I want to see lemmy be an exact copy of reddit, but you can follow people over there, and it seems a usefull thing to do.

My problem with masto is that it's a pretty decent twitter replacement that I found while looking for a facebook replacement. I figured out two things real quick: I really didn't want use anything similar to facebook after all, and while masto came a bit closer to what I'd wanted, in the five or six years I've used it since, I've become a master of cooking my thoughts down to 500 characters.

I don't feel like it was a productive challenge; more often than not I came away feeling semi-muted.

I'll call it the twitter limitation, because I know masto kind of inherited it.

I just found it limiting. Go figure :)

THAT SAID, the masto devs make really good software, without qualification.

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Apparently it is configurable so either find a instance where the limit is very high or host your own (or pay someone to do it)