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@pup_hime talking bout mainline. awoo has a patch that removes the limit when there's a CW

having long-form text in 20+ posts is one of the worst Twitter "features" we imported, the posts are just longer

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mastodon should fold threads or allow more than 500 characters

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Okay it's fixed now so I guess I can tell you what this was

For about a week there, after introducing the new link preview layout last Sunday, Mastodon.social had *no limit* on the length of an OpenGraph article title. To test this, I crafted an otherwise blank HTML page whose OpenGraph title was the complete text of the Communist Manifesto. Anytime this page was linked in a mastodon.social timeline, it resulted in a preview with a 6,000 line title. This is how long it took to scroll through:

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@mcc a spectre is haunting Mastodon

thanks for your responsible disclosure!

well "well "well akshually" akshually" akshually 

@EveOfTheFuture @elilla the long s isn't typeset at the end of words, you still use a round s there

re: Tech question 

@socks ideally you'd have CI set up that automatically builds containers from your repo

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@socks a downside is that you have to build a new container to update system packages in case there is a vulnerability instead of just updating the host

@codl I went from a waterproof phone to a non-waterproof one and the only thing that changed is that I stopped occasionally cleaning it with soap and running water

@NoraReed I would prefer if Mastodon had a more robust tagging system like, e.g. Cohost, unfortunately, Eugen

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@NoraReed I mean you could have some word on it that's not a hashtag

@NoraReed (also it doesn't need to be a hashtag to mute it)

@NoraReed if you post unlisted it doesn't show in the hashtag

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