mastodon should give us some way to set a character limit on replies from strangers

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

mastodon should give us some way to set a character limit on replies from strangers

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

or maybe just in general

[vilelasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva nah, that's silly nonsense. In this essay I will...

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@aeva
Or at least put anything beyond 500 chars under a fold.

[ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social]

@aeva I like how instances have their own configurations but in the end what you get is an asymmetrical conversation.
Some people in my circles often put a huge wall of text and I only have 500 chars :)

trick: just ignore them.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

actually no, unlimited[1] post length, but the font size drops proportionally to message length

footnote [1]: please keep the golden rule in your heart: "please do not make me have to update the rules"

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@aeva [Error: replies to this post are restricted to cat gifs]

[ataylor@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva Linearly interpolates to the Bee Movie script after 150 characters.

[shinmera@mastodon.tymoon.eu]

@aeva
I'd rather have a thing that forces them to read the last 100 posts of mine before they can reply

[anthracite@dragon.style]

@aeva

This is a very good idea.

The limit on my instance is 77777 characters and that seems to be effectively unlimited, really anything >5k or so and I start thinking "maybe this should be a blog post instead".

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@shinmera @aeva and like all of them, right? Right? /j

[dank@jorts.horse]

@aeva number of faves you've dropped on an account should determine how many characters they can reply to your posts with

[congusbongus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva limited characters too. W and U only

[a@pdx.social]

@aeva @Flux I love it. Bring back the old newspaper metric of “column inches”; you pick the typeface.

[tyil@fedi.tyil.nl]

@ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place As far as I know, its only #Mastodon that refuses to let people have more characters. You can just use any of the better Fediverse softwares to not have this issue. If I'm not mistaken, with #Pleroma you could potentially even limit the amount of characters from incoming messages if you really wanted to, by using an MRF.

[suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com]

@aeva You will see my holy GNU/Scriptures in their 10,000 word glory.

[heals@indiepocalypse.social]

@aeva wait, do global character limits not also apply to replies? Or are we talking about "let me set repli[post exceeded reply character limit]

[utterlymundane@hachyderm.io]

@aeva unlimited post length, but if you start scrolling past it too quickly, an animated hook drags the post off screen.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@heals I have a 500 character limit when writing any kind of post including supplies. People who are not on stock mastodon often have a much higher character limit, and some of those people do not have the ability to say anything important in under 1000 words