Wondering if Mastodon is really the right space for me.
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Wondering if Mastodon is really the right space for me. Even with 10,000 characters, my last post still felt cramped. I have so much to say, and trying to pour that into any fixed container is a challenge. Perhaps Substack suits my long-form tendencies better. Is lengthy content considered poor etiquette here? Genuinely curious what others think.
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Wondering if Mastodon is really the right space for me. Even with 10,000 characters, my last post still felt cramped. I have so much to say, and trying to pour that into any fixed container is a challenge. Perhaps Substack suits my long-form tendencies better. Is lengthy content considered poor etiquette here? Genuinely curious what others think.
@HarmonthSeeker You can always write on Substack and link to your posts here.
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R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
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@HarmonthSeeker You can always write on Substack and link to your posts here.
@Rosalyn That's not a bad idea actually.
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Wondering if Mastodon is really the right space for me. Even with 10,000 characters, my last post still felt cramped. I have so much to say, and trying to pour that into any fixed container is a challenge. Perhaps Substack suits my long-form tendencies better. Is lengthy content considered poor etiquette here? Genuinely curious what others think.
@HarmonthSeeker lol; that's a lot of text... hehe
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Wondering if Mastodon is really the right space for me. Even with 10,000 characters, my last post still felt cramped. I have so much to say, and trying to pour that into any fixed container is a challenge. Perhaps Substack suits my long-form tendencies better. Is lengthy content considered poor etiquette here? Genuinely curious what others think.
@HarmonthSeeker I would love a 10000 character limit. The limit on my instance is 1500, and that usually does suit my purposes. If you write more long-form stuff, maybe a place like Substack might be a better fit, though I myself have no problem with longer posts. However, I know that many people can get kind of prickly about it. I remember when Twitter went from 140 characters to 280 and many, many tops were blown.
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R relay@relay.publicsquare.global shared this topic
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Wondering if Mastodon is really the right space for me. Even with 10,000 characters, my last post still felt cramped. I have so much to say, and trying to pour that into any fixed container is a challenge. Perhaps Substack suits my long-form tendencies better. Is lengthy content considered poor etiquette here? Genuinely curious what others think.
@HarmonthSeeker I like using Friendica based instances. Most offer like 200k or more -
@HarmonthSeeker I like using Friendica based instances. Most offer like 200k or more
@growfediverse Thank you for this. I have never heard of this. My next question is if I went with this, how do others view my posts if they don't have those limits?
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@growfediverse Thank you for this. I have never heard of this. My next question is if I went with this, how do others view my posts if they don't have those limits?
@HarmonthSeeker Usually they see an exerpt that they can click through to see the whole thing.
Although I think some instances it works like they restrict what size their users post yet their users can still see other instances long posts as one big post in their feeds.
And also if you want to have more control over what people see in the exerpt you can use the "abstract" function to write a little summary instead of it just showing the first so many words of what you wrote and then when the person clicks through they see the whole thing.
hope this helps! it is also sometimes possible to import all the posts from your previous mastodon habdle but not always (depends on how well the admin configured the instance), but ive had success importing followers.
Only caveat is Friendica has more features so it may take a moment to get used to its UI being different. But people are usually friendly about helping answer questions. Happy to follow back and help if you end up putting your toe in the water there.
