Subj : Re: Mastodon / Fediverse
To   : Warpslide
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 10:38 pm

 W> I had to use ImageMagick to turn the weather forecast 
 W> into an image to get around the character limit.  It's 
 W> funny how I can only post 500 characters of text but 
 W> posting a 32k image of text with up to 1500 characters 
 W> of alt-text (which more than fits the whole forecast) is 
 W> perfectly ok.

Nice solution to post the forecasts!  Seems to work great.

 W> This could work with ftn messages that are less than 
 W> 1000 characters, but longer posts could get messy.  
 W> Maybe spinning up your own instance with larger limit 
 W> would be easier, or consider something like lemmy which 
 W> has a 10,000 character limit by default.  Lemmy uses 
 W> ActivityPub, so you can follow those accounts from 
 W> Mastodon.

Great points about character limits and some ways to deal with them.

 W> There's also Matrix which is more like discord which has 
 W> "up to ~65200 bytes" available for messages.

Can Matrix accounts (I guess it would be channels?) be followed from other fediverse services like Mastodon/Lemmy?  I haven't gotten on Matrix yet (I'm not sure why not at this point).


Chris/akacastor

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