The limit of 500 characters

[townie11]

I love Mastodon, but I’d like to have more than 500 characters. I see some people post longer posts and some of them come from different software (Pleroma, Misskey, etc.) but some come from Mastodon instances.
So I have a few questions:

• Will Mastodon ever allow more characters by default? I think I heard the main developer is against it?
• Is it hard for an admin to change the character limit?
• How can I find instances with larger limits? Is there a list of Mastodon instances that automatically shows the character limit?

[paula]

@townie11

Will Mastodon ever allow more characters by default? I think I heard the main developer is against it?

I think vanilla Mastodon will stick with 500.

@townie11

Is it hard for an admin to change the character limit?

Afaik you basically have to fork Mastodon, which is more of an effort than it should be. Managed Mastodon hosters that I know only support 500 characters and they say changing that would make troubles with every update.

@townie11

How can I find instances with larger limits? Is there a list of Mastodon instances that automatically shows the character limit?

I only know of this list of German language Mastodon instances, which includes character limits: FavStarMafia > Deutschsprachige Mastodon Instanzen - Content Nation

[townie11]

Cool, thanks for the quick reply. I’ll check out that list.