IDK where exactly the line between useful threads and "this needs a different medium" is
but there's people around who write things like "long thread/146" and I'm sure that's FAR over that line and gone
The worst thing: there's people who do that near once a day and I just can't get myself to read such stuff. No matter how well written and on-point it tends to be.
I'd have to go and hunt for the start only to find out if it sounds interesting. So I don't.
@dat@social.g33ky.de IMHO, the character limit has failed once threads were allowed. Once, when grandda.. erm, I was young and Twitter was a somewhat nice site, longer takes got a short abstract and the link to a blog.
Now we've got "42/386" on Mastodon or very long posts from many other Fedi softwares, incl. WordPress plugins that post the entire blog entry. I prefer the latter, but Sharkey only shows the top and "show more" - don't know if Mastodon finally does something similar. And the plethoria of apps handles this quite differently as well.
@mort I have no problem with "show more". If I want to read long text, then by all means there should be long text. No need to switch mediums.
Character limit was born out of "we want to forward to SMS" and not out of something that's relevant today.
Keeping it short is still useful. But hard limit to 140 characters was never sensible. (and it gave birth to URL-shorteners and similar crap)
Maybe there should be some marker people can insert, indicating where to cut/shorten too long text? IDK
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@dat@social.g33ky.de I think I once read ActivityPub even has some separate elements for short and long contents, but almost no software supports it.
@mort yeah, don't think having different fields is that useful
I mean, it is from a technical standpoint… (no stupid string parsing/escaping)
but users probably don't want to type the first words twice?
But if that's there already, then that's nice.