@joaopinheiro@mastodon.social

Niklas is correct, in my view, in pointing that Eugen will stand his ground and refuse changes on the limit. He's stuborn and hard headed sometimes, and many people have got pissed off by how much control he has over the whole project.

I think the best course of action is to move to one of the alternatives already available and offering not only larger Toot size limits, but better user controls, and faster performance in the case of Pleroma.

Eugen has stated outright that he doesn't even want to see the Toot limit advertised as a feature to attract new users -- as he knows he will lose people if they knew there are alternatives to this cramped 500 he enforces.

Brutal, is what it is. I read two great Medium posts by a lady who worked in the Mastodon project a couple of years ago -- she did what I do, prepare documentation, intermediate between users and management, tech and developer teams. And never got a credit mentioned in the project documentation, or any money. She left and was feeling better after it.

Her two posts are recommended reading if you have interest on knowing the inner workings of the mastodon project - -and the reason for Forks and splits, etc.

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-yesterday-4c5796b0f548

and the second one, 27 days later :

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-27-days-ago-ae34919290e1

@globcoco -- you might want to add these to a reading list. Recommended!

@nipos @rgx@muensterland.social