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I’m curious about the state of formatting support across the fediverse. This is a test post, authored in Markdown via the glitch-soc frontend. This text should be bold. This text should be in italics.
If you see this post, please share a screenshot of it, and tell me which client app or web frontend you’re using. Thank you. 78 comments | Expand all CWs
   @luna ... Which immediately popped up an "are you enjoying tooot?" model. Bit needy.  @luna mastodon+glitch-soc web ui in firefox, a few weeks out of date from current :D @luna Ice Cubes on iOS, no formatting whatsoever, but it also seems to have stripped out markdown characters (if there were any to begin with?)  @alexforster @luna can confirm this  @mayank @luna yes and no, what formatting (in the form of html tags iirc, been a couple of years since ive had my hands in the guts of this) is allowed is controlled by the server, and vanilla mastodon scrubs most of it (or at least used to, idk recently) as an intentional choice by the designers. but even so these are html tags that are then sent to the frontend, which decides how to render those html tags. note how some frontends change the color of monospace, others don't, for instance.
    @luna@pony.social this is what it looks like for me on misskey     @Rhababerbarbar Edit:   @luna Mona on macOS. (It’s not a great app but I appreciate it for being just the right amount of annoying to reduce my screen time.)      @luna my customized akkoma uses a font that won’t make bold very noticeable on most setups. this issue impacts approximately 1 user(s) on the entire network.  ldvsoft, there's a low-priority ticket for @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io to design how blockquotes and code blocks and something else I don't remember what should be rendered. So it'll be supported eventually. Here's how it looks in Smithereen:  There's also a bug in Smithereen that happens when the person you're replying to doesn't have a display name. I should fix that ldvsoft, <- this, it's meant to become a mention, but it doesn't. So I have to write it manually as @ldvsoft@fosstodon.org, otherwise the comment doesn't get sent to your server for some reason edit: oh NOW it did. Weird. Must depend on the reply level?  @grishka and then the next ticket asks for <marquee> and <blink> support. it’s a slippery slope. where does it end ldvsoft, there are two fundamental problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. |
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@luna Just normal web from my server