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@ianmacd You didnt have to delete them, they were not a problem, I was just curious...
So the cross poster I use to twitter splits my messages up for me automatically no matter what my message length here.
That said you may want to consider using the moa party cross poster for that functionality (you need to configure your account to behave that way.
@freemo No, it was correct to delete them. Better to have the full message contained in a single posting and its content not duplicated.
I verified my Moa config before posting, but something still went wrong behind the scenes.
@ianmacd ahh ok, weird I never had that problem. Let me know if you figure it out.
@freemo Incidentally, how do other instances deal with your huge and generous character limit? I assume that it's honoured, but I can see technical issues with not knowing that the length is immutable.
Has someone developed an efficient way of dealing with that dynamically?
@ianmacd it works seamlessly with all instances as far as I know. I have verified this to be true on most major flavors. So that is handled just fine.
Twitter cross posting is a bit special so yea you do need a cross poster that is aware enough to split up the messages (and moa party does that).
@freemo Yes, I did use Moa, but for whichever reason, it didn't work in the direction of Twitter; from which I drew the illogical and clearly wrong conclusion that it wouldn't work in the other direction, either.
Very cool that toots of arbitrary length are simply handled as one would hope across the Fediverse.
@ianmacd You have to explicitly set it to split up your messages as I recall. Just go into the settings and set it up and youll be good :)
@freemo The reason I did that was... incompetence.
After posting a single message on Qoto, I noted that cross-posting to Twitter had failed.
I then posted separately to Twitter, using a client that automatically split my message into ten parts, which then, thanks to Sod's Law (you may know him as Murphy in the US), **were** cross-posted to Mastodon.
I have deleted the ten individual postings. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.