I’d also like a larger character limit.
i started on techhub dot social, and they had a 1k character limit, and i recently switched to hachyderm dot io, which has a 500 limit. hachyderm seemed a little more lively and social in the “local” feeds. techhub’s local feed seemed to be a little dry and had a lot of bot activity. but not sure if my experience truly representative, i am relatively new to the fediverse in general. never had any moderation issues with either.
Are admins able to set a character limit? :O
I’m on todon.eu
It has a 1312 character limit, which tells you a lot about the vibe of the instance, if that’s what you’re into
1312 doesn’t tell me anything
It means ACAB: “all cops are bastards.”
One of the other tech instances. Infosec.exchange maybe. I’m on Fosstodon and followed the incident. I was also dinged for tooting in French once, so I opened a second account. Someday I might merge them for simplicity’s sake.
It’s not the language requirement that is motivating my move (although I don’t particularly like it).
What incident?
There have been several incidents
This is a little summary:
Yikes! Thanks for the link.
It’d be really nice if there was a github page with an overview of all the mastodon instances like the one for lemmy. Is anyone aware of such a resource?
Link to the github page in question for lemmy
I’ve been pointed to https://instances.social/
Sort of related, but does anyone know if Mastadon servers require others in the server to find other instances before you see feeds from them in the All tab, like with Lemmy?
I’m thinking of getting into Mastadon and that would be a big reason to pick a bigger instance than a smaller one.
It does work that way, but Mastodon and some other microblogging software like Firefish (fka Calckey), Pleroma, etc. can also use relays to populate their federated timelines.
Oh right, I remember hearing about relays. Is that something the admin of the instance controls?
Yup! If the software supports it, instance admins can usually add relays from their control panel.
It works similarly in that regard.
Good to know!
I’d just recommend switching to Kbin or Firefish tbh
Kbin and firefish don’t quite work the way I like. Moderation is a per instance concern that’s not so easy to discern the quality of.
I didn’t notice any issue with Mastodon Social