Ok, so how does this long-form posting work? X qoto.org is 65536 max, but the mastodon IOS client is 512, but I was replying to someone and it was 256?
If I make a mega-post - can others see it? Just the beginning? Not at all? maybe it chops it up?
Just curious. I'll work it out eventually myself...
@Biggles
Well if that was you testing it then I saw only this and nothing mega: (feel free to put a lot more)
" Ok, so how does this long-form posting work? X qoto.org is 65536 max, but the mastodon IOS client is 512, but I was replying to someone and it was 256?
If I make a mega-post - can others see it? Just the beginning? Not at all? maybe it chops it up?
Just curious. I'll work it out eventually myself... "
@freeschool the default mastodon iOS client tops out at 512. But I noticed when replying to someone on another server it was 256. Gonna mess around in the morning while I should be working...
@freeschool the iOS "Toot!" App claims to allow the full 65k. I'll try to find something semi-useful or amusing to not totally waste the bandwidth and test.
@Biggles so the mastodon default is 500. QOTO runs a modified version of the software with a limit of 65k. However, the app I think you're referring to is published by the official Mastodon team, which takes the position that Mastodon is for *micro*blogging and if you want to write longer posts you should not use Mastodon. They have at other times resisted making changes to the interface to accommodate longer posts, so it wouldn't surprise me if this were a deliberate ideological choice to maintain Mastodon's "purity" as a microblogging platform.
Most interfaces hide everything past the first 500 chars behind a "show more" link or button, as everyone's kind of come around to the idea that longform instances exist and you need to accommodate their toots in a way that doesn't break the interface, even if you don't permit them yourself.