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 The freedom protocol doesn’t need a character limit. Clients can solve this by limiting what’s shown on screen and allow the note to be expanded. 
 Why limit yourself or anybody else? If you like short posts just follow people who tend to write short posts. But remain flexible. Some long post you read anyway, others - not. 
 The same reason some restaurants focus on serving meat while others focus on vegan meals and others serve everything in between.

Optionality is good, specially when it’s basically free. 
 In this example restaurants are more like npubs, not relays. If you want to parable relays, you should say city districts that only allow restaurants that serve only meat 😉. 
 No, npubs are guests inside the restaurants if you want to take it there.

A similar analogy was used in some podcast now that you mention, I think it was on TGFN, where they use  the analogy of relays as houses 
 I still cannot agree. Restaurant guests are readers. 
 Fuck you. I think I am European. 
 Jack give him a leet sn plz. 
 True. Character limit requires proof-of-work. It benefits the audience. It forces people to communicate more efficiently. 
 Well, X also allows (relatively more) free speech than Facebook.  That's a huge plus. 
 We don't wanna be like Twitter 
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 Twitter was special that it’s still referred to as Twitter. Few characters sometimes are enough; although my posts are mostly very long. 
 Great for prompt democracy 
 Your post is generating a lot of interest.
Added to the https://nostraco.in/hot feed 
 Agree!!!!! Dissertations are for academia. 
 But now we have #NOSTR!!! 
 Twitter was great. But now antisemites, haters, chauvinists and much more.....this kind of folk took over.  
 Jack is not managing/owning Twitter anymore 
 Jack do you agree with that presentiment? 
 Clients could implement character limits if they choose, but the protocol should not. 
 Intelligent conversations are hard to come by in 140 characters. 
 Daddy I’m here ☺️ @jack 
 Facebook is worse. Data is cringeworthy  
 Nostr has character limit?