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Screenshot of a paragraph from the linked article: There’s an element here of how we’re building and adding features to Mastodon, to make it more approachable and useful to more people - to that end, we’ve got new members of the team focused on user <br />interfaces, user experience and design. We also plan to work on features that we’ve heard organisations ask us about, such as greater customisation for their instances. Finally, we’ve greatly increased our presence at community events and conferences, <br />to talk about the broader Fediverse story.

2025-06-17 22:05:10

stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Mastodon team's priorities for this year: Restructure the organization, grow the user base, reach financial sustainability.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-2025/

via https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114700481706646534

#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia

2025-06-17 22:06:25

Stefan Bohacek

stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Greater customization for Mastodon servers does sound very nice. No more updating the source code to increase character limit/number of options in polls would be nice! 🤞

2025-06-17 22:09:48

The Nexus of Privacy

thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange

Yeah really. And that functionality already exists in forks and patches so it'd e easy enough to do!

@stefan

2025-06-17 22:13:09

Chris ÁBRÁHÁM

chris@abraham.su

@stefan I would love more than 500

2025-06-18 12:11:41

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Chris ABRAHAM Do you absolutely depend on being on Mastodon (as opposed of the rest of the Fediverse)?

Because there is Fediverse server software (as in federated with Mastodon, as in you can follow Mastodon users from there, and Mastodon users can follow you when you're there) that offers way more than 500 characters. It may also offer other features which you may want Mastodon to have, or which are even completely unimaginable from the point of view of someone who knows the Fediverse as only Mastodon. Some examples:

Misskey: 3,000 characters, hard-coded
Misskey forks (Iceshrimp, Sharkey etc.): thousands of characters, configurable by admin
Pleroma, Akkoma: 5,000 characters, configurable by admin
Friendica: 200,000 characters, probably hard-coded
Hubzilla: 16,777,215 characters, database field size limit (this is where I'm replying to you from right now)
(streams), Forte: over 24 million characters

CC: @Stefan Bohacek

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits

2025-06-17 22:07:17

Jes

Jesticulated@mastodon.social

@stefan its only a matter of time before large sections of our fediverse are cast into shadow of capitalism. Where is the next new thing to keep us free?

2025-06-17 22:11:27

Rocketman

slothrop@chaos.social

@stefan All this sounds reassuringly boring 😇

That’s a good thing. Updates about this sort of organization should be as unexciting as possible.