mastodon does not trim posts, at least not at 5,000 characters. Doing so would break non-mastodon AP servers (afaik, activity pub does not have a limit).
Treehouse (which uses the glitch version of mastodon) has a limit of 5,000 characters. The AsahiLinux account there has examples of going over out 500 character limit and render well here.
For me, it would be nice if https://cyberplace.social/@eslerm/112797847404922384 could be one post. Instead I made +20 posts, which was a bit verbose for others timelines.
Mark Esler
npub125…vq8c7
2024-08-22 17:25:44 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…v6c2
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2024-08-22 17:25:44 UTCEvent JSON
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