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1. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 23:35:22 EST Tobias
   How do people live with 500 characters as limit? Just writing short replies often leads to longer texts for me.
   
   Sure having this limit would likely enforce it. But just being free to write longer texts ( and if only slightly longer) feels good.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 00:19:46 EST lnxw48a1

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      @tobias Back when Identica had a 140 character limit, Evan opened some other sized instances for people to decide what felt best to them. At the time, "best" felt like it was round 280 to 300 characters. 500 and 1000 felt too long, and unlimited felt worse.
      
      Over time, however, I find that no matter what size limit I choose, I want more ... despite only rarely approaching the limits I set.
      
      If I'm posting a thread of too-short notices, it feel like I'm trying to run but I'm too out of breath.
      1. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:24:59 EST Tobias

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         > Over time, however, I find that no matter what size limit I choose, I want more ... despite only rarely approaching the limits I set.
         
         That is what I mean @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} most of the time it works and then there are a few occacions when one just needs to write a bit more and either shortens the text with cryptinc letter combinations, or starts a thread of shortened messeges.