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BeetleByesterday at 9:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

The character limit is, in my opinion, the primary reason Twitter became so bad. It encourages absolute language (qualifiers take up characters!) It discourages any level of nuance.

I use Mastodon which has a 500 limit, and even that sometimes is not enough.


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8by3today at 4:47 AM

The opposite of short exists.

https://tuhat.net/about

Also open source.

rowbintoday at 12:00 AM

What do you mean with "became bad"? It started out with a 140 characters limit in 2006 and kept that for more than 10 years. So its the other way around: it became worse, when the character limit increased. Though I don't think its due to the character limit either way.

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