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What is the maximum number of characters allowed in a Mastodon post? I’ve noticed some posts are quite long but I tried a long post and found I had exceeded the character count after a short paragraph.

@RiBurton Different instances have different length settings. It's something to consider if you ever think of changing instances.

@sbourne as you can see, I’m new here & feel really dumb. What is an instance?

@RiBurton I could try to explain, but it sounds like you need @feditips! Everything I know I learned from there (and the website they link to on their account page.)

@RiBurton @feditips I just glanced at that again. What I called an "instance" they call a "server".

FediTips has moved!

@sbourne @RiBurton

Yeah, they mean the same thing on here, just two different words for it.