@resynth1943@banana.dog Yes, I agree, fully.

Twitter started way back when, at a time when there was no Data service for cell phones -- people sent these new fangled Tweets over SMS. Hence, the 140 characters limit, which they kept even after smart phones were ubiquous.

They increased to 240 Chars or so now, but I still find it quite cramped. Eugen doubled that, to the 500 chars limit, but there's no technical reason for a limit at all.

Our instance here, Qoto, allows 65 K chars -- and it will be transmitted and stored, displayed in any other masto place. So, doesn't break anything.

Not that I have ever used that much, but I have been at 4 K or so many times, in a single post. 500 ?