Do you wonder how some people's posts are longer than 500 characters?
It's because they are on servers that have higher character limits for posts (or in some cases no limits at all). More info at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-do-some-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-have-bigger-character-limits
You can find some human-curated well-run servers with higher character limits listed here:
➡️ https://fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-size
If you want to move to a higher-limit server, account transfer instructions are at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
