Surprisingly for many of you, there are indeed people on Mastodon who have a problem with long posts over 500 characters; CW: long post (over 900 characters, over 1,200 in Mastodon count), quote-post, 19 hashtags (including 13 to trigger filters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta, character count meta, character limit meta, over-500-characters meta, sarcasm
"Write your posts as long as you want," they say.
"Don't be apologetic about it," they say.
"Literally everyone in the whole Fediverse has gotten used to posts over 500 characters, and nobody minds anymore," they say.
"Literally everyone on Mastodon is perfectly okay with all of Hubzilla's antics," they say.
"Nobody wants the Fediverse to only be vanilla Mastodon," they say.
Oh, really? Then I've probably faked this shared post here.
Citizen.Coping wrote the following post Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:24:21 +0100 @Gargron
Being able to mute or filter posts that exceed 500 characters would be great.
Search is not good because it returns too many dissertations.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LongPosts #LongToots #LongPostMeta #CWLongPostMeta #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #QuotePost #QuoteBoost #CharacterCount #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #500Characters #Sarcasm
"Don't be apologetic about it," they say.
"Literally everyone in the whole Fediverse has gotten used to posts over 500 characters, and nobody minds anymore," they say.
"Literally everyone on Mastodon is perfectly okay with all of Hubzilla's antics," they say.
"Nobody wants the Fediverse to only be vanilla Mastodon," they say.
Oh, really? Then I've probably faked this shared post here.
Citizen.Coping wrote the following post Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:24:21 +0100 @Gargron
Being able to mute or filter posts that exceed 500 characters would be great.
Search is not good because it returns too many dissertations.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LongPosts #LongToots #LongPostMeta #CWLongPostMeta #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #QuotePost #QuoteBoost #CharacterCount #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #500Characters #Sarcasm
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Yeah, but IMO the correct position is that some people will have a problem with it, but that's between them and the software they use to access the platform.
I'd say one should both be unapologetic and also aware that long posts aren't for some readers.
A writer isn't forcing long posts on anyone, so it's not the responsibility of the writer to serve that audience.
However, sometimes I write something targetted at Mastodon users such as my "Things to know about Hubzilla" series. That means I have to reach as many Mastodon users as I can. And then I can't afford a whole lot of them ignoring my post because it's too long or blocking me right away.