Recommendations for other progressive Mastodon hosts without tiny character limits?

Hey Mitra, I think you might also get very helpful answers asking this question on Mastodon.

Also - do you (or anyone else) have a link to the earlier discussion about character limits? I also think 500 is too few, though I was just begrudgingly getting used to it.

@pjwsocial.coop https://www.loomio.com/d/C4HKmTOa/proposal-to-revisit-extending-the-character-limit-for-posts/82

Make a proposal!

I only microblog and never run into our 500 character limit, so I don’t really care if it’s higher.

We already voted to increase character limit to 1000 (https://www.loomio.com/d/C4HKmTOa/proposal-to-revisit-extending-the-character-limit-for-posts/82)

Far less than the 3000 but double the current limit, TWG hasn't gotten to implement the outcome of that vote yet though

Not sure this is fitting content for our decision-seeking platform, but well:

Everybody is free to blog, you can click one easily. If it all seems to overwhelming, Medium.com is user friendly. On social.coop we're microblogging. And in the spirit of POSSE, you can always share links to your longform on Fedi.

@Daniel Brandes Of course I have no problem with you or anyone else preferring a 500 character limit, and arguing and voting for it. But "On social.coop we're microblogging" is not a very fair or compelling argument. Social.coop is whatever we, the members of the coop, want it to be. And the distinction between a microblog and something else isn't an immutable fact of nature.

In any case, as @Ammar helpfully pointed out, this discussion has already been had and doubling the character limit is on its way, so I guess there isn't much more to add on the point for now.

Hi Mitra,

Why don't you just split what you are sqying into 500-character chunks?

AIUI, this limit came from the original SMS protocols used by Twitter to communicate.

( Yes, I do know that the original protocols were smaller, but the character-limits were extended as Twitter became more popular... )

From my perspective, I have not problems working within these limits, as those limitis were there when I started using Social.coop, but other people's experiences may be different.

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Also, I hadn't seen that conversation about the character limits, but I've not been well recently, so I missed out on a lot of things taking place. I'll try to keep up. :D

@Billy Smith As a reader, I hate it when I have to read 10 posts from the same person (Cory Doctorow or example) because he can't post it in one with a "Read More". I don't want to unfollow him because half his posts are of interest to me. I don't want to inflict that on anyone else. If you want to restrict your posts to 500 characters so-be-it. Since at least my posts aren't for a local social.coop audience, but for a wider metaverse audience, I don't want to be stuck with a restriction that others don't have to live within when IMHO it restricts the ability to make cogent arguments - and was one of the reasons I think Twitter was such a cess-pit.

If social.coop doesn't want to change, or hasn't got/prioritised the resources to do so then I respect that decision, hence the post to ask if anyone knows another site that is still progressively minded but doesn't make its users work withing these limits.

I notice, with Irony, that we have to use Loomio to hold these discussions because our Mastodon itself wouldn't allow almost any of the posts in this thread.

@Mitra Ardron 

I didn't see Twitter as a cesspit. I was having some really interesting conversations there, but I was operating from a position of priviledge, ie. white, cis, male. so I was operating on easy mode.

Mastodon does not allow secure voting like Loomio.