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@kaveinthran@tweesecake.social · last week

@McCullohMD @EJGilbert @emily_rj Here are some considerations from disabled founded larger character limits servers...
Some disabled-lead mastos use the Mastodon fork Glitch such as dragonscave server, caneandable use the regular mastodon, tweesecake server, uses Glitch-soc, a free open source software forked from Mastodon.

Emily Johnson

@emily_rj@disabled.social replied · 2 months ago

@EJGilbert @McCullohMD I’m pretty sure that’s a built in Mastadon function that admins and mods of instances have no control over unfortunately

Chris McCulloh, MD ♿️(he/him)

@McCullohMD@disabled.social replied · 2 months ago

@EJGilbert - @emily_rj is correct. There has been a lot of discussion about this in the Mastodon developer groups over the years. People have individually modified the source code to do this, but it is unsupported and requires modifying the code every time an update happens. Unfortunately, deviating from the code like this creates a lot of maintenance difficulty and would potentially make us incompatible.

This thread, for example, has been open for more than six years. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12265

kaveinthran

@kaveinthran@tweesecake.social replied · last week

Kaveinthran

@kaveinthran@disabled.social replied · last week

@kaveinthran@tweesecake.social @McCullohMD @EJGilbert @emily_rj According to this article, In the newest Mastodon V4.3.0, you only need to modify one file in order for the maximum character count to be changed.
Any inputs @FediTips to make the process more easier for host? #disabledSocial
https://mszpro.com/mastodon-character-count