Mastodon displays properly Markdown posts from other instances, but doesn't allow creating posts with it. I'm trying to fix this. I know there is glitch-soc, but I don't want to switch to a fork for a single feature. So is there a patch for mainstream Mastodon that adds this functionality?

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mastodon does in fact not render markdown from other instances. They get converted to HTML by the sender instance.

[–] myszka@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Oh that's an important detail, thanks!

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Markdown... Mastodon... I like where this is going 🍺

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Marktowndon?

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I mean, if you will

[–] mat@zelk.space 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@myszka the cleanest way to do this would be to just allow Mastodon users to create "Articles" in ActivityPub actors and enable markdown support in them imo

[–] myszka@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! I am an absolute newb in this. Is there a patch that does that?

[–] mat@zelk.space 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@myszka I think a fork would be necessary to add it

you could also create a feed that fetches articles only, it would be dope!

[–] myszka@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Okay, thanks!