I don't understand how implementing a setting for a basic feature like increasing the max character count above 500 is still considered controversial in the Mastodon community.
It's literally the first thing every single Mastodon fork changes, because literally everyone agrees that this is arbitrary bullshit that makes the software harder to use for absolutely no reason.
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@SuperDicq remember when mastodon used to brag about having a bigger character limit than twitter