xcjs

maegul , 2 months ago to Fediverse

Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic

See the conversions here:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4628
and
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/federating-the-content-of-posts-note-articles-and-character-limits/4087

AFAICT, mastodon's decisions, which are arguably problematic (on which see: https://lemmy.ml/post/14973403) are literally trickling down to other platforms and infecting how they federate with each other as they dance around mastodon's quirks in different ways.

It seems like masto is ruining "the standard" with its gravity.

#fediverse #mastodon
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xcjs , 2 months ago

It's a W3C managed standard, but there are tons of behavior not spelled out in the specification that platforms can choose to impose.

The standard doesn't impose a 500 character limit, but there's nothing that says there can't be a limit.