@snow

I wouldn't go that far. He designed the system to work a certain way, and from his perspective long toots are a form of not playing nicely with others. As a microblogging service he wanted Mastodon to be able to fit many toots onto the screen, so he capped the length. Other instances sending longer toots have forced him to modify the software to cope gracefully (e.g. by collapsing long toots), and he's not happy about having to do so.