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faq:post_share:post_length_character_limit [2022/11/17 05:26] – dreadpir8robotsfaq:post_share:post_length_character_limit [2024/05/01 19:44] (current) – [Don't force people to scroll past your wall of text] Corrected the link discrepancy (text says rule 5, link says rule 7). Checked with Jerry, should referr to Rule #5. Addjusted accordingly. onion
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 ====== Post length and character limit: how long is too long? ====== ====== Post length and character limit: how long is too long? ======
-The post length limit on Infosec.Exchange is 11,000 characters. The standard Mastodon post limit is 500 characters, which is still longer than Twitter at 280, but shorter than Facebook at 33,000.+The post length limit on Infosec.Exchange is 11,000 characters. This is possible because [[about:infosec_exchange|Infosec.Exchange runs]] on the [[faq:mastodon:glitch_soc|glitch-soc]] fork of [[faq:mastodon:|Mastodon]]. 
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 +The standard Mastodon post limit is much lower at 500 characters, which is still longer than Twitter at 280, but shorter than Facebook at 33,000.
  
 <div tip>With an 11,000 character limit, you could share the whole of the Project Gutenberg translation of War and Peace in a little over 300 posts, but don't.</div> <div tip>With an 11,000 character limit, you could share the whole of the Project Gutenberg translation of War and Peace in a little over 300 posts, but don't.</div>
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 ===== Don't force people to scroll past your wall of text ===== ===== Don't force people to scroll past your wall of text =====
  
-It's fine to write longer posts, but if they're longer than a few hundred characters, put them behind a [[faq:post_share:content_warning_how_to_use|Content Warning]] so people don't have to scroll past your giant wall of text. Repeated or egregious use of too-long posts is may collide with [[rules:05_lack_of_rule_is_not_permission|Rule #5]].+It's fine to write longer posts, but if they're longer than a few hundred characters, put them behind a [[faq:post_share:content_warning_how_to_use|Content Warning]] so people don't have to scroll past your giant wall of text. Repeated or egregious use of too-long posts may collide with [[rules:05_no_spam_no_excessive_promotion|Rule #5]].
  
 ===== Some other instances may not support long posts ===== ===== Some other instances may not support long posts =====
-FIXME what happens if a user on Infosec.Exchange posts a long post and someone on a vanilla Mastodon tries/wants to read it - does it work, or does the vanilla instance trim or reject the long post?+Instance Admins have a certain amount of control to deploy their instances as they see fit, so the advice here is based on very limited testing. 
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 +If a member of Infosec.Exchange were to publish a toot in excess of the 500 character limit applied to another instance it will appear in the other instance trimmed with a ''Read more >'' notice after several hundred characters. When selected the toot appears in full, as per normal. 
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 +If posting at this length, one [[faq:post_share:content_warning_when_to_use|ought to use]] a [[faq:post_share:content_warning_how_to_use|Content Warning]] to avoid forcing users to hit a wall of text. If done, the toot will appear appropriately truncated. 
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 +This was tested with messages sent from Infosec.Exchange to another, non [[faq:mastodon:glitch_soc|glitch-soc]]-based instance with a 500 character limit.