Maybe we can bring back Yo and federate it.

What if 90s SMS, but worse?

3 characters! Yes!

you get 50 characters now

What if we made the character limit a randomly generated number?

Your posts must now use 80-character columns and no special characters.

emojis only

Hofstadter’s rule of thumb: the best character limit is always lower than you think, even if you take into account Hofstadter’s rule.

That is suc

replace character limit with character minimum

"I have lowered the character limit, pray I do not lower it further"? ​​

Morsetodon: Maximum of 1 Morse “character” per message (post character limit = 5, only allowed characters are “.” and “-“).

If people complain, simply lower it until they can't.

What if we made it mandatory to use an exact number of characters?

Evil admin: Monetize the character limit based on monthly subscription amount. Every dollar per month gets you 10 characters per post. Characters are defined by unicode breakpoints to further drive monetization. Wanna use those fancy emoji? Pay up!

Ooooo, AWS pricing. Don't forget pricing for your managed gif attachment gateway service.

Cryptobro instance admin: every 6 mo toot length halves.

meanwhile the character limit for image alt text has been increased to 8Gb

Posts now limited to