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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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[–] bluetoucan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Are you not mistaken here? Does FOSS not mean "free as in free speech, not as in free beer"? I.e. it does not necessarily mean offering the software to you for zero cost, it means that once you have acquired it (whether you paid for it or it was given away) you can do with it what you wish