@Tobias And to think at some point we were happy with 140 characters mentions included!

@hoergen Need money for each character

@7homas ♓ sometimes it just have to be more then just 500 characters to write sentences in a posting so they make sense. And having a thread of replies combined holding the entrire text, is just a poor hack bypassing the artificial limit.

For many things 500 might be enough. But the pure existence of these threads composing a bigger posting, just shows to me that the limit is wrong.

> Over time, however, I find that no matter what size limit I choose, I want more ... despite only rarely approaching the limits I set.

That is what I mean @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} most of the time it works and then there are a few occacions when one just needs to write a bit more and either shortens the text with cryptinc letter combinations, or starts a thread of shortened messeges.

There are some Mastodon instances with higher char limits.

You may also take a look at #Friendica or #Misskey, if you constantly find yourself needing more than 500 chars.