@earfolds i didn't mean character limits per se, i meant them as a stand-in for the general trend of microblogging and the habits many of us preserved (consciously or not) from environments like twitter
@typhlosion This social network we're using right now isn't limited to microblogging, thankfully; there are a few fully-fledged pieces of blogging software out there, and you can even get this working with wordpress if you really want. Something which microbloggers on, or from, Twitter won't really appreciate from the outside.
@earfolds you're fixating on specific parts of my thing - character limits, microblogging - when what i'm actually trying to talk about is the sensation that those things contribute to people on the internet apparently not knowing how to healthily approach complex issues (favoring instead laconic quotable stances that are often very extreme and harmfully general).
it isn't JUST a twitter or mastodon problem. im tryin to make an observation about the zeitgeist
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