Not sure if anyone noticed but there was a bit of a rollercoaster going on behind the scenes with Micro.blog’s queueing and ActivityPub the last couple of days. Lots of little tweaks later, much happier with everything. Faster and more reliable.

@manton great! Thanks! 🍻

@manton thanks for sharing 👍

@manton Cool. Anything about longer messages for platforms that support this...? 😊

@z428 No change for that yet. In theory we could include full-length blog posts, but it's hard to know whether the receiving platform will do anything useful with it.

@manton Ok, thanks. No worries.... I think, though, Mastodon API offers a method to tell how many chars a receiving platform supports...? Maybe that would be a starting point?

@z428 That's true, they do have an API for that.

@manton Pleroma and Friendica advertise 5000 characters and my other mastodon account at social.Vivaldi.net upped itself to 1337 (😏) characters a few months ago.

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Would the changes somehow involve webmentions, too? I seem to be getting quite a few lately that are … the result of comments on my own site. (That then federate out into the “Fediverse.” And then “come right back,” if that makes sense.) And it looks like it could be Micro.blog sending these mentions. Like, it’s almost as if it picks up these ActivityPub posts someplace (which is perfectly fine) but then “backfeeds” them, uh … back to my (WordPress) site?