I found Firefish which is a better alternative to the standard Mastodon application. It’s compatible with Mastodon and has better features. It allows users to create web pages and the character limit is 3,000 instead of the 500 on Mastodon. It feels like a good limit for the type of site that it is. Plus this means that it can handle long posts from users on customized Mastodon instances.
1·1 year ago- if we keep on creating new ones, it would lead to fragmentations
- there’s no way that all these numerous admins would agree to enshitify the internet in a uniform manner like what happened with the big companies (e.g. with Twitter and Reddit); and even if they do we can just create a new instance or fork the good older version
- for a lot of people, they’d just use what other people are using without caring about the technical prowess; 3000 char limit increase means nothing to them
- most of the people who run these things don’t care about competitions, they don’t get more money (or perhaps even anything meaningful) from staying on top; they probably won’t care about the next-door shop got better stuff