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Character Limit wont Update (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Map_Consuela@alien.top to c/mastodon
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Heeeeydiho

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i used a Tutorial to change the Character Limit from Mastodon from 500 to 10000 Chars, it all went well no errors, i recompiled and reloaded with "systemctl restart mastodon-sidekiq.service mastodon-streaming.service mastodon-web.service"

when i use

https://blog.xxxxxxxx.xyz/api/v2/instance it even shows

statuses
max_characters 10000
registrations:

max_toot_chars 10000

so everything well uh? no i still can only post 500 characters somehow? any reason?

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[–] forestman11@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk the answer but I would consider how changing the character limit may affect federation.

[–] nahuelwexd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't really affect, the protocol does not define any character limit

[–] forestman11@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure but will other Mastodon instances display them?

[–] iloveadolin@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

My bookwyrm posts federate and display without issue. These posts are mostly reviews, sometimes 1000+ words.

[–] nahuelwexd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. without any problem. If you use Mastodon vanilla you may find that you have to scroll long and hard because it doesn't collapse the post with a "Show more", but not much more

Many Mastodon clients and Mastodon forks already handle this issue adequately, as do other software in the fediverse such as Pleroma/Akkoma and the Misskey forks.