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Randahl Fink

Do you feel we would lose anything, if more Mastodon servers allowed longer posts? On many servers the limit is 500 characters, which means we sometimes see texts that span multiple posts.
Would more characters be good or bad?

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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@randahl Posts on social.kernel.org may have up to 31337 characters. ;)
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randahl@mastodon.social

Randahl Fink

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@monsieuricon why that seemingly random number?

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K. Ryabitsev

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@randahl It's meaningful in the context of kernel hacker subculture. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
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Randahl Fink

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@monsieuricon brilliant.

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K. Ryabitsev

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@randahl I didn't come up with that, so I can't claim the brilliance -- but I did find it very clever. :)
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