ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoPluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorowpluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down116cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·4 days agoHe is. And his care for the audience translates to posting 10+ post threads to mastodon, a microblogging platform, because he cares so much. Instead of, dare i say, posting one toot with a link to his blog.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoI’m puzzles as to why anyone would routinely post threads to Mastodon rather than moving to an instance without a short limit.
minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoDon’t know which is worse, really. At least some at least unlist from the second post onwards, kinda mitigates.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoI don’t think long posts in Mastodon are a bad thing at all. I self-host and I changed the character limit to 50000. By default, Mastodon will collapse long posts in feeds. If you don’t want to see long posts, you don’t have to click to expand them.
minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI’d say that collapsing thing depends on the client…
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoWhen I say “by default”, I meant the vanilla Mastodon web client. Of course alternate clients could do just about anything.
He is. And his care for the audience translates to posting 10+ post threads to mastodon, a microblogging platform, because he cares so much. Instead of, dare i say, posting one toot with a link to his blog.
I’m puzzles as to why anyone would routinely post threads to Mastodon rather than moving to an instance without a short limit.
Don’t know which is worse, really. At least some at least unlist from the second post onwards, kinda mitigates.
I don’t think long posts in Mastodon are a bad thing at all. I self-host and I changed the character limit to 50000.
By default, Mastodon will collapse long posts in feeds. If you don’t want to see long posts, you don’t have to click to expand them.
I’d say that collapsing thing depends on the client…
When I say “by default”, I meant the vanilla Mastodon web client. Of course alternate clients could do just about anything.