I don't think I like this feature because a verification doesn't have a concrete meaning. I think leaning in to account labels would be a better solution because labels can say something specific. A way for an account to feature a label or three as badges next to usernames seems better.

Can we bite them on the nose instead?

It's easy to collapse long posts in feeds for UX reasons while still allowing posts to be at least tens of thousands of characters. At some point there's a denial of service risk.

ActivityPub allows very long posts, and Mastodon, the most popular implementation collapses them.

Thanks for the response. That's unfortunate if accurate. ATProto has lots of moving parts and it's not obvious what's done where as a beginner.