Increasing Mastodon character limit

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What type of hardware are you using: Virtual machine
What YunoHost version are you running: 11.3.0.2
What app is this about: Mastodon

Describe your issue

I would like to increase the character limit on Mastodon toots.

I have tried to follow this guide.
First I did sudo yunohost app shell mastodon as explained by @tituspijean here.
And then I followed the guide but I got stuck when running
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
as I get the following:

bash: bundle: command not found

What should I do?

Thanks!

2

I have tried by exiting from this mastodon shell before running the precompile. For a short instant I thought that was the solution, but then I got another problem:

mastodon@sub:~$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
bash: bundle: command not found
mastodon@sub:~$ exit
exit

peer@sub:/$ sudo -i
root@sub:~# cd /var/www/mastodon/live
root@sub:/var/www/mastodon/live# RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
Compiling...
Compilation failed:
/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/glob/node_modules/minimatch/dist/cjs/ast.js:86
    #fillNegs() {
             ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '('
    at new Script (vm.js:88:7)
    at NativeCompileCache._moduleCompile (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:240:18)
    at Module._compile (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:184:36)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)
    at require (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:159:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/glob/node_modules/minimatch/dist/cjs/index.js:9:18)
    at Module._compile (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:192:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)
    at require (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:159:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/glob/dist/cjs/src/index.js:4:21)
    at Module._compile (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:192:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)
    at require (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:159:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/mastodon/live/config/webpack/shared.js:6:18)
    at Module._compile (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:192:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)
    at require (/var/www/mastodon/live/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:159:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/mastodon/live/config/webpack/production.js:13:22)

What should I do?

Thank you

3

Try calling bundle with bin/bundle instead.

4

I get this:

mastodon@sub:~$ RAILS_ENV=production bin/bundle exec rails assets:precompile
bash: bin/bundle: No such file or directory
mastodon@sub:~$
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Oops, sorry, I forgot to change directory to live.

But look what I get now:

mastodon@sub:~$ cd live
mastodon@sub:~/live$ RAILS_ENV=production bin/bundle exec rails assets:precompile
/usr/bin/env: ‘ruby’: No such file or directory
mastodon@sub:~/live$

What should I do?

6

Now I have tried again the same command but this time adding sudo. It has asked me for the password of the mastodon user. I don’t know that password.

7

I could enter the command doing @yelvington sugestion and happily finished the instructions.

But the character limit stays on 500 : (
I even gave it a reboot.

Any suggestion on what else to check?

8

In order to catch where the problem could be, now I followed this other guide:
https://3xn.nl/projects/2023/10/06/increasing-the-character-limit-on-mastodon-4-1-x-and-4-2-x/
I could also finished it without a single issue, but the character limit stays on 500.

9

I would recommend using another Fediverse software that support custom character limit per post.
Off the top of my head: Gotosocial, Glich-soc…

10

So glitch has a place in its admin panel to change the char limit?

11

Regarding my issue, apparently the problem is because the precompile is not working because nodejs needs to be updated.

So I guess I will be able to increase the character limit once I upgrade to Yunohost 12, which includes an updated nodejs.

Writing this thing now just in case the thread closes automatically before I upgrade to Yunohost 12 and report the results here…

12

Yes, the Glitch-soc package for YunoHost has a config option called “Maximum allowed character count in a toot” that you can configure from the app’s config panel.

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Please check here for changing the character limit on Mastodon 4.3:
Increasing the Mastodon 4.3 post character and poll options limit - René Fouquet(%5B’server’%2C%20’server,the%20number%20500%20to%202500.
I did it with succes, but had to add nodejs and yarn manually before running RAILS_ENV.

14

Increase in character limit with new mastodon versions:

Customize Mastodon to Change Your Post Character Limit

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