r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by smacktoward on Saturday April 06, 2019 @04:04PM (#19592715)

Mastodon has a character limit, but the protocol underlying Mastodon (ActivityPub: http://activitypub.rocks/) doesn't.

Adding a character limit was just a design decision on the part of the Mastodon developers to make their app more Twitter-like. There's nothing stopping others from building apps that don't have a character limit, and they would be able to federate with Mastodon and other AP-enabled apps just fine.

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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by egypturnash on Saturday April 06, 2019 @04:31PM (#19592846)

There’s patches floating around to change the limit on Masto, too. My instance limits you to 7777, and requires you to put it behind a CW if it’s more than 777. I know of an instance that gives you unlimited text if it’s behind a CW.

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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by scarejunba on Saturday April 06, 2019 @05:21PM (#19593073)

What's a CW?

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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by kiike on Saturday April 06, 2019 @05:52PM (#19593235)

Content warning. Like those spoiler tags in some forums that let you hide or show the actual spoiler.

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Re:r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAV... by progval on Sunday April 07, 2019 @03:54AM (#19595434)

Why require a CW for that? Most clients should auto-collapse long messages now. (Mastodon's web client does).

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