Post #579945

2026-03-08 01:43 UTC

@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca what I *currently* do is compose inside Emacs (the *only* non-painful alternative for long posts), then manually decide how I'm going to break it up -- which actually has some literary content to it, because in some cases, you *do* want to arrange the breaks for maximal dramatic effect (generalized How to Use Paragraphs) Problem 1 being that emacs doesn't count characters the same way as mastodon does, and I don't find out until I've cut&pasted part n, which doesn't happen until I've already posted parts 1..n−1 Problem 2 being having to cut&paste in the first place when I should just be able to hit SEND (which then has to be from within emacs).

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@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net 2026-03-08 02:01

@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca given that I once-upon-a-time wrote a MAPI client for the sake of being able to post to Microsoft Exchange forums in rich text using courier font, in theory, I should be able to do this. ... but that would mean I'd have to Learn Fediverse. crap. hmm: https://codeberg.org/martianh/mastodon.el now I just have to figure out if this is the best one or if this just Guy Who Grabbed the Name first and did the best SEO twigging ...I hate that google search has gotten so enshittified)

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@mdhughes@appdot.net 2026-03-08 02:07

@wrog @dougmerritt @screwlisp @kentpitman @ramin_hal9001 @cdegroot I stick to posting longer-than-two-posts content to my blog, which auto-toots a link, initial text, & any tags. Or write to my phlog and then tell people to look there, but that's for devnotes/commentary on my Cyberhole. Third option is to get onto an instance with a huge character limit, post giant walls of text.

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