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Reading one of the older issues from Mastodon with regards to character limits:
> this is not officially supported because equality of service is one of the principles of how Mastodon decentralization is intended to work. Using one instance should be roughly the same as another when it comes to the software.
I'd argue that decentralization allows one to go with a server with the settings that tailor to them the most. If one wants to have a server with a 1000+ character limit they should.-
I mean it becomes somewhat pointless if every server looked and feels exactly the same. By that logic, there shouldn't be custom theming and yet there are Mastodon instances with non-stock theming.
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Yes you can hack the code to increase/decrease the limit but it is a hack, which means there's isn't a way for 3rd party apps to know about it.
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@archaeme I feel that "equality of service principle" would actually make #Mastodon much like #Twitter: It's also "decentralized" in some sense, because it consists of a multitude of servers distributed globally.
Also, according to some regional laws , personal data of a country citizens should be physically stored on a territory of the country: here we see real data decentralization...
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