Mastodon Cross-Posting Not Working

[markreeves]

@ted

Last week I wrote a longer post and it never showed up on my Mastodon timeline.

How long was it? I just got one of these, when I expected a truncated post to land on Mastodon:

Feed: Error posting to Mastodon, trying again... {"error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"}

@help

For example, on Mastodon:

• Short posts without a title, and less than 500 characters, will be sent to Mastodon unmodified.
• Longer posts without a title, but longer than 500 characters, will be truncated with a link back to your microblog.

Manual cross-posting truncated it and added the link, using: