Yet they still think it’s a good idea to limit text posts to 300 characters for reasons I cannot fathom.
It’s a Twitter-like replacement. That model clearly worked for a lot of people, why change the formula?
So what is the character limit you consider acceptable on Bluesky?
I don’t see value in a character limit other than whatever might be needed for technical reasons. Bluesky allows alt text for images to be 2000 characters, so clearly any technical limitations allow at least that much.
For those who prefer short text posts, hiding posts longer than a user-configurable setting behind a “see more” link would do.
10,000 characters seems good. You want something that most people will never feel constrained by because that allows you to make actual posts. People should not have to comment on their own Post 10 times to express a coherent thought
The original reason was so that you could fit an entire tweet into a text message because that’s how you are supposed to interact with it when twitter first launched and they doubled it later. Having a character one with that short is it strongly discourages any sort of long-winded explanation or coherent thought. Do you feel like you either have to a bridge what you’re saying to fit the sharply artificial character limit or you have to replace yourself over and over which is somehow a thing that’s except it is normal this might be crazy. Thankfully Macedon has always allowed you to set a custom limit and most are very large these days. I think 10,000 characters is a decent default. One of the good things about Ray’s I always allowed roughly that much text which means that you only ever had to replace yourself if you were well and truly effort posting, or that one time someone posted the entirety of John galt’s speech as an epic shit post. This is one way we can beat the corporations and it’s as simple as editing a single config file
it’s as simple as editing a single config file
It isn’t. Mastodon has a character limit hardcoded in two places. Critically, that’s not a limit on what it can receive and display, just on what local users can post. With Bluesky, it’s part of a schema that would be enforced on posts from elsewhere, if anybody was actually running a Bluesky-compatible appview in the wild.
Still nothing to address discoverabilty issues. There are timelines that no one’s maintaining and some packs and thats it? On mastodon I can just follow a hashtag and find people on Bluesky my feeds are just random low effort spam with a gold nugget once a while.
Following hashtags is just the best
Love bluesky!
