Today I learned Tumblr limits you to 250 posts per day, or 500 if you pay extra. Does Mastodon or any fediverse platform have similar?

https://help.tumblr.com/writing-posts/#NPF-Specific%20Limits

Most of my projects have the ability to set total post limits and number of connections limits, though sites rarely set them. Many set file storage limits; though - since we otherwise give every person unlimited cloud storage by default. I don't have any problem letting a site admin define posts-per-day as a quota policy or a payment tier policy, if anybody sees a need to do so. Would be trivial to implement. So trivial that I did it whilst posting this reply...

@mikedev I'm thinking about it for two situations. One is a limit on new accounts. Slowly ramp up the number of posts they can send out daily. It can be a ridiculous limit, like starting at 50 per day, up to 300 per day after no reported issues identified. This limits damage caused by spammers and is similar to IP warmups I've done for company mail systems.

The other is more of a wellness setting, configured by the user themselves. "You've posted 10 times today - that's your personal limit!"

Yeah, I might set that on my single-user instance. For spam prevention, it isn't so much post limits, but reply limits. Especially on the platforms that don't have any reply controls. I might add that as well, as it is tracked separately from top-level posting. That fits my general belief that fediverse projects should not set policy, but provide the tools so that individual instances can easily implement whatever policies they desire/require -- and not be forced to play whack-a-mole with spammers as their only means of defense. That gets old real fast.