diff --git a/web/lib/mastodon_postlen.php b/web/lib/mastodon_postlen.php
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index 03e2cf1..0000000
--- a/web/lib/mastodon_postlen.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-function postlen($post) {
-	global $retlds;
-//	echo "-A-> |{$post}|\n";
-	// for some reason, mastodon seems to check tld existence only on http(s) links - see next regexp
-	$res=preg_replace('#(^|\W)(@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)@(([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9])?){1,63}\.)+([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9])?){1,63}\b#u', '$1$2', $post);
-	if (!is_null($res)) $post=$res;
-//	$res=preg_replace('#(^|\W)https?://(([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9])?){1,63}\.)+([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9])?){1,63}(/\S*[\w=?_-])?#u', '$1HTTP://UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU', $post);
-	// on http(s) links mastodon checks if tld exists...
-	$res=preg_replace('#(^|\W)https?://(([a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9])?){1,63}\.)+('.$retlds.')(/\S*[\w/=_\-])?#u', '$1UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU', $post);
-	if (!is_null($res)) $post=$res;
-//	echo "-B-> |{$post}|\n";
-	return mb_strlen($post,'UTF-8');
-}
-
-?>