When trying to reference an existing entity that has a very long title (title can be up to 255 characters), a validation error is thrown because the text added by the autocomplete js code will be longer than the maximum field size, which is set to 255. This is caused by the extra characters needed for the id to be included in the string (in the format "<title> (<id>)").
Use the same maxlength used by the \Drupal\Core\Field\Plugin\Field\FieldWidget\EntityReferenceAutocompleteWidget, which is 1024.
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Needs work
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The change is currently missing an automated test that fails when run with the original code, and succeeds when the bug has been fixed.
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
I think this is the same issue as https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3120904 📌 Unset maxlength on EntityAutocomplete form element Active and the solution there, to set #maxlength to NULL, fixes it also. Attached is a patch with this change.