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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.