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Firefish Mastodon alternative (joinfirefish.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

if I recall, Mastodon actually lets you change the character limit per-instance.

That being said, nice to see some love for Firefish here.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    Unless they recently changed things, the creator said specifically that he isn't going to add the character limit as an option. I can understand that since sometimes you need to restrict certain features based on the goal of the project. I think it would be fine because I don't think it will turn into Medium since the interface isn't really set up for that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd love to know where that setting is. As far as I've been able to see, I'd have to rebuild mastodon myself to be able to do that, and that's just less convenient for me than pulling the default docker images

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