Dare I suggest that the conclusion in Scripting News: Monday, February 27, 2023 that @dave has come to is wrong.

@manton isn’t limiting the number of characters in a post, he is limiting how many of those characters get to appear in the stream.

Count me as one who doesn’t want to scroll through 5,000 words of one post to get to the next … so I am for it. Though there might be a better way that keeps all of us happy.

What if I got to choose in my settings how many characters I see in any post in the stream before it is truncated. In this way, the experience of the reader is put first and the writer doesn’t have to think what gets truncated or not .. because they have no idea where their readers are setting their truncation point?