For the most part I feel very much at home on the Hachyderm Mastodon server; it's probably the best social media experience that I can remember having and I have had the pleasure of interacting with so many cool and impassioned people there. Hachyderm implements the default 500 character post limit which is hard-coded into the Mastodon codebase and as of writing these, seems unlikely to ever be made configurable. Every now and then, especially when adding summaries to long (1hr+) live programming videos that I share across the Fediverse, I come up against that limit. At the end of last year, I had an idea: Why don't I just self-host my own Mastodon instance that allows for posts that are longer than 500 chars, make longer posts on that account, and then boost them from my main account on Hachyderm? Sounds easy, right? Well... Using my domain I wanted to be able to use my current domain so that I could be looked up as @jeezy@lgug2z.com. This is actually quite well documented and can be …
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