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I believe it's just Eugen not willing to remove the useless limits. People very rarely go past 400 anyway, but when you really have something to say, you have to start these stupid threads like you'd do in Twitter. I wish Mastodon would just start trunkating posts at a certain character/line limit, behind a "show more" button.
I have often ended up needing to shorten my toots because of It. I would indeed much prefer a way to have longer toots.
Just use pleroma, there is no capping
I was going to mention that, too... Or, as has been mentioned elsewhere, one can self-host Mastodon and raise the cap. But... why?
well , the cap is at 5000 characters by default.
Mastodon is specifically developed to facilitate short Twitter-like posts. Consider moving to a different service altogether if you keep having issues with it.
Some instances allow a longer character limit. It's really just an option that the admin decides, most admins just keep, the default. if you have a greater character limit then longer toots will be under "show more".
Mastodon no. Glitch Social (Mastodon fork) and Pleroma are the ones where you can set a different character limit even as admin.
In Mastodon, that option was hardcoded from certain begining until August 2020 when I left the network. I even remember some threads in Mastodon repository about it and Eugen not wanting to provide support.
Ok my bad. I didn't know you couldn't change it at all without using a fork. That's a bit of a shame I think. To be honest the more I think about it Mastodon isn't always the best thing to host anyway unless you are planning on a large community.