"That one man could accumulate such a fortune, much less be willing to spend it on a company for #ideological or #personal reasons, was a testament to the world's widening wealth #inequality. This simply wasn't what the elite did with their money. To buy and operate a global corporation for one's own pleasure was unheard of. Musk was breaking the rules of what it meant to be rich."
#CharacterLimit - How #ElonMusk destroyed #Twitter - "Bring that Cattle" Chapter - PP. 139
![A man [Elon Musk] in a red and black armored costume poses triumphantly with his arms raised, while a woman [Musk's mother] in a stylish black outfit and short platinum blonde hair smiles beside him. The background features a blue wall with "Heidi Klum Halloween" promotional text.](https://files2.mato.social/media_attachments/files/114/404/024/519/929/153/original/cbf0ca5e65d7e7de.jpeg "A man [Elon Musk] in a red and black armored costume poses triumphantly with his arms raised, while a woman [Musk's mother] in a stylish black outfit and short platinum blonde hair smiles beside him. The background features a blue wall with \"Heidi Klum Halloween\" promotional text.")
"#Dorsey approved of #Bluesky being formed as a fully independent company in late 2021. All he wanted was a form of #socialmedia that could evade capture or control altogether, be it by advertisers, Wall Street raiders, politicians, or shareholders. A month after #Graber's lawyers signed off on the Bluesky paperwork, Dorsey handed Twitter over to #Agrawal."
#CharacterLimit - How #ElonMusk destroyed #Twitter - Bluesky Chapter - PP. 90
@ramiro @ErickaSimone @Binder Square is Jack Dorsey's brand. The dude that convinced Musk to buy Twitter, and rolled his $1B share into the acquisition. See #CharacterLimit for how it happened.
I thought it is a good idea to create the Mastodon account @Pixelix on the official instance mastodon.social, but the character limit of 500 is a pain.
I even had to split the latest patch notes into two posts, and they are not that long.
2025 book five: Kate Conger & Ryan Mac: Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter 
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@stefan
The name is short (not likely to matter to many, but it was the basis for my choice), and by chance the #CharacterLimit turned out to be large, over 100k.
Yay, thanks to @jan being lovely and not shying away from the headache of hosting a forked Mastodon, my instance how has an increased character limit.
This was one of my main bugbears and is going to improve my life. Not having to freaking edit something to squeeze in that one extra character? Yes, please.
If you want Jan to host your own Mastodon instance (maybe an instance for one, just you?), see https://toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html
Why is 500 Charst still the measly limit for Mastodon? And why would changing that still require fiddling with files? Why is this not simply an option?
This feels so very unnecessary.
@noybeu Full alt text of the letter excerpts in the above post can be found at:
https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/raw/branch/main/irish-dpc-letter-details-alt-texts.txt
(They exceed Mastodon’s character limits for alt-text.)
Now that everybody's talking about #PhonyStark's phone calls with #Putin, time to remind all y'all that, as revealed in #CharacterLimit by Kate Conger & Ryan Mac, just one day before closing his acquisition of #Twitter, #Musk was $400 million short of the $44 billion he owed, and tried to shake down Twitter board into paying it out of their cache reserves. Mysteriously,¹ he found the money overnight.
¹ When exactly #8vc, a noname firm employing two sons of Putin's oligarchs, join the deal?
Finished Act I: the first third of the book that covers the #Twitter's path from its beginnings to getting the hostile acquisition offer from #Musk. Oof.
I was there in 2021-2022, but there was a lot going on that I only suspected, and even more that I had no idea about and that in retrospect explains a lot.
For example, #Dorsey being an absentee CEO was very obvious from before I even finished onboarding. But based on what I learned about him from #CharacterLimit, it was a good thing.
TIH
Today Eye heard that the @Beige.Party Mastodon instance offers users an unlimited character count.
If this is true, Eye may have to join the Beigers.
In reality though, Eye only need about 250 more characters than my current instance's quota allows.
#Mastodon, #CharacterLimit, #BeigeParty, #TuckersBalls
Such great effort and post butchered by the #500characters limit imposed by careless mastodon admins who want to make their instance appear like #twitter
While a/v fluff and nonsense floods the timeline 500 ascii characters seem enough to explain and present complex ideas.
@RustyBertrand #characterlimit
Clearly a commercial mass media effort to maintain domination
Here, if you believe #elections and #voting means anything to those in power vote on this
The #mastodon (#twitter wannabe) server's default character limit
@yianiris@mastodon.social @afewbugs @Shobeck @ChrisMayLA6 @simon_brooke #characterlimit #500characters
Hardly any of your posts are text without a/v enhancements. Do you believe corporate social media conditioned users to only read/observe a/v enhanced messages and avoid text, especially long text?
Mastodon in order to replicate the twitter feeling for users "limited" comments to 500 characters, when the smallest image requires 100 times more in resources. It has also made it hard for server managers to extend this limit.
too many sentences no commas no periods .. it is not like the #characterlimit got you
@fkamiah17
OFF TOPIC #CharacterLimit
If you are directing this to me, yes, but that is another discussion.
I have over 40k posts, including many threads and convos, which still cannot be migrated.
Besides, #desecration is an issue. Someone defederation from the "mother instance" is bound to be very isolated very quickly.
For me, a no-go, at this point.
Besides, like Laffy and Cory, you learn to live with it, and you also have more opportunities to feature links 
