@jon_bon Why doesn't Mastodon provide configuration for character limit through the configuration file? If it provided it, we would increase the limit to a much larger value. Since it doesn't, we're not currently doing it. We don't really want to have to patch each release of Mastodon and make sure we don't miss any new places they reference the hard-wired value of 500. We could do that but we prefer using the unmodified package which is why we haven't done it yet.