Verbose: a post splitter for Mastodon
Hello, this is a Verbose instance, it can split your long post considering Mastodon rules: every http(s) link counts for 23 characters and every mention counts only for its username part. Each split post comes with “…” signs where it makes sense and with a counter in “[n/t]” form, where “n” is current post number and “t” is total posts number.
Verbose doesn’t save anywhere what you write or paste into it, it doesn’t use third parties’ cookies, it sets some cookies of its own only if you choose to connect it to your account, and it can be used even without Javascript.
If you find issues please report them to me on Mastodon, or here.
Connect?
If you don’t want to connect Verbose to your account, you can just skip to the “Split post” section, but after splitting your long post you’ll have to copy and paste by hand each split post in sequence into Mastodon (i recommend “chain posting”, that is replying to the first post with the second, to the second with the third, and so on).
If you choose instead to connect Verbose to your account, you’ll be able to post all split posts at once directly from within Verbose, they will be automatically “chain posted” and, before posting them, you may set their visibility, language, and a post to reply to with the first split post.
To connect Verbose to your account
- if you already have an authentication token you just need to specify your server’s hostname and your token (your current split session will be unaffected);
- if you have not an authentication token yet, you first have to authorize Verbose to access your account by specifying only your server’s hostname, leaving the “Your token” field empty; then you’ll be guided through a very quick and easy one-time authorization process, at the end of which Verbose will tell you your token for future connections, and will be already connected to your account - but please note that this process will make you loose your current split session.