diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb
index 4f7c25c0..e2a85f79 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class Api::V1::StatusesController < Api::BaseController
   # conversations as quasi-unlimited, it would be too much work to render more
   # than this anyway
   # : TODO :
-  CONTEXT_LIMIT = 4_096 
+  CONTEXT_LIMIT = 512
 
   def show
     @status = cache_collection([@status], Status).first