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Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:31:49 +0100

FeralRobots@mastodon.social

@atomicpoet
Huh- I thought it had this already, since I'm seeing what seems to be link & basic text formatting markup in a lot of posts. Is that some kind of accidental "support" - i.e., if your markup is minor enough it'll get ignored or just won't break stuff? Or are the instances of origin doing something special?
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Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:38:39 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@FeralRobots The only tag which Mastodon doesn't strip away is the URL reference tag.

Bold type, italics, underline, strikethrough etc. are stripped away when they come in from other projects in the Fediverse.

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:49:44 +0100

FeralRobots

FeralRobots@mastodon.social

@jupiter_rowland
Well that accounts for the links.

I'll try to take it apart next time I see text formatting. I don't think it's unicode - that has a certain look about it & anyway is easy to see when one inspects.

What about what we used to call terminal control codes? There's a more modern term that escapes me, but that's what we used to call them. Could some forks be messing with those to pass through basic formatting?

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:57:51 +0100 zuletzt bearbeitet: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:59:17 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@FeralRobots @Sarah Brown We could try a complete run-through. Which of these can you see?

The list itself
Horizontal bars
URLs
Text sizes
Bold type
Italics
Underline
~~Strikethrough~~
Colours
Highlighting
Quotes
Code

We could also try tables or other kinds of lists.

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:00:24 +0100

FeralRobots

FeralRobots@mastodon.social

@jupiter_rowland
Can't see any of them. I think @goatsarah is likely right & I'm conflating my native instance with some forked instance.

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:04:24 +0100

FeralRobots

FeralRobots@mastodon.social

@goatsarah
Tables are an interesting accessibility problem. I've occasionally tried to pitch to people that at least some tables can be designed such that they make some kind of sense if they end up just getting rendered as a series of paragraphs. But it's a rare table (that should've been one in the first place) that works *well* in that format.

@jupiter_rowland

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:18:32 +0100

Emperor Palpapeen

Shrexios@mastodon.social

@jupiter_rowland @FeralRobots maybe Mastodon and the fediverse in general ahould have a standard set of tags for bold, underline, super/subscript, italics, etc.

Does markdown work?

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:48:53 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Emperor Palpapeen @FeralRobots I think it's all translated to a common language in ActivityPub anyway, probably HTML.

The issue with Mastodon is that it strips everything off except <a href>.

That said, I myself consider the lack of text formatting support a minor issue in comparison with how Mastodon handles pictures in posts from outside.

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:54:36 +0100

Robert Logger ?? [Friendica]

logger@libranet.de

@Sarah Brown
You can use Friendica for that( like I do). If you want to post like on Instagram, consider Pixelfed.
@Emperor Palpapeen @Jupiter Rowland @FeralRobots

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:04:31 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Sarah Brown I've demonstrated that phenomenon here.

Worse yet, Mastodon drops the pictures behind, i.e. outside the CW if there is one. The text is hidden by the CW, the pictures aren't.

@Robert Logger ?? [Friendica] The nice thing about Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) is that you can do lots of things on one platform. There's no need to have a microblogging account on Mastodon, an article blogging/macroblogging account on WriteFreely and a picture-blogging account on Pixelfed. Extra bonus: You also have full access to your uploaded pictures because your account/channel includes file space.

@FeralRobots @Emperor Palpapeen

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 22:52:50 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Sarah Brown @m@thias.hellqui.st @FeralRobots @Emperor Palpapeen @Robert Logger ?? [Friendica] Yep, Mastodon is currently stripping all formatting tags of all posts, only leaving links in. This is what's planned to be stopped.

Hubzilla and (streams) users have the same problem as Friendica users, also because Mastodon mangles their posts even further. You can see in this thread how it handles pictures (if you can see the pictures, but that's another issue).

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:07:43 +0200

Emperor Palpapeen

Shrexios@mastodon.social

@jakob @jupiter_rowland @FeralRobots @goatsarah

I gave up on friendica

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:11:07 +0200

Emperor Palpapeen

Shrexios@mastodon.social

@jakob @jupiter_rowland @FeralRobots @goatsarah my experience was bad. Performance issues, uploading issues, browser bogged down by it.

Maybe in a year or so I will look at it again.

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 16:03:22 +0200

FeralRobots

FeralRobots@mastodon.social

@Shrexios
I just haven't had the bandwidth to play with any of these, yet. Most are on stacks I'm not familiar with & my day job (which is 40% Wordpress & 50% keeping up with the devops stacks one needs to maintain a large org's public-facing Wordpress site) sucks up most of the brain cells I'm willing to allocate to web app experimentation right now.

I'm hoping in a yr or so they'll still be around.

@jakob @jupiter_rowland @goatsarah