XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: yeti@tilde.institute   
      
   Rich  writes:   
      
   > Isn't Mastadon supposed to be the "open source twatter"?   
   >   
   > If so, does it allow long form content, or is it intentionally crippled   
   > to the same "brain fart" size message units as twatter?   
      
   Some Mastodon nodes allow 500 chars, others up to gigantomanic lengths   
   per brain fart.  They may allow near to zero markup or other nodes   
   additionally HTML and Markdown.  They are federated with systems that   
   grok hashtags and with others that do not.   
      
   Such a level of feature inequality among federated nodes only deserves   
   one judgement: Fatal design flaw.   
      
   There are only a few major timelines and even hashtags don't cure that   
   and so there is no easy way for discussions to stay focused.   
      
   And filter mechanisms are very underdeveloped.   
      
   News readers had decades of evolution more than New Fedistan clients.   
      
   --   
   1. Hitchhiker 5: (44) Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was delighted.  He knew   
   that when a Dentrassi looked that pleased with itself there was   
   something going on somewhere on the ship that he could get very angry   
   indeed about.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)