@silverpill Who are the longformers anyway?

They're those who either are commercial or looking for professional/commercial users or both. Flipboard. Automattic (WordPress). Ghost. These kinds.

They know themselves. They know each other. And they know Mastodon. And that's it.

None of them has ever heard of Pleroma or Akkoma.

None of them has ever heard of Misskey or the Forkeys.

None of them has ever heard of Mitra.

None of them has ever heard of GoToSocial.

None of them has ever heard of Hollo.

None of them has ever heard of Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) or Forte, even though Friendica and Hubzilla are both older than Mastodon. And apparently, neither has @Helge. But then again, Friendica and its nomadic, security-enhanced descendants are being overlooked by almost everyone. That's why there's always on-going work for features to be "introduced to the Fediverse" which Friendica has had for a decade and a half.

Granted, the HTML support on Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte can be summarised with "yes". But elaborate tables that show what either of them supports how would be very useful.

Also, granted, everything I've mentioned above (normally) uses something else than HTML for formatting in the frontend. For example, Misskey and all Forkeys use MFM ("Misskey-Flavoured Markdown"). Friendica uses extended BBcode with the option to use Markdown instead. Hubzilla uses even more extended BBcode. (streams) and Forte can use the same even more extended BBcode and Markdown and HTML at the same time within the same post, although not all markup languages support all features.

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#this-is-wonderful #wafrn-formatting #text-formatting

@Martin Holland Vanilla Mastodon cannot generate any text formatting in any shape or form AFAIK. You can be lucky that it can display a small subset of it, and even that has only been possible since October, 2022, when Mastodon 4 was released.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #TextFormatting

@hexaheximal There's no syntax for it on mastodon.social. You simply can't do it there.

Some users have already mentioned Markdown which is supported by a few Mastodon forks, Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey and its several forks (including but not limited to Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey and Catodon), Mitra, (streams), Forte and optionally also by Friendica, probably also by others.

For completion's sake, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte mainly use BBcode.

The syntax for quotes is either [quote]Here goes the quote[/quote] or [quote="Whoever is quoted"]Here goes the quote[/quote].

Both in-line code and code blocks are delimited with . At least Hubzilla can also do code highlighting if an appropriate plug-in is installed on the hub and the [code] tag has one of the following parameters: php, css, mysql, sql, abap, diff, html, perl, ruby, vbscript, avrc, dtd, java, xml, cpp, python, javascript, js, json, sh.

Lastly, (streams) and Forte even support HTML.

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@Larry Garfield @Renaud Chaput In this case, the handling of long-form content should be configurable per account.

The settings could be:

• Render fully (default; what the devs of Hubzilla and (streams) want)
• Always link (what Mastodon does with Article-type objects)
• Link if title or subject is available, otherwise render fully
• Link if title or subject is available, otherwise block
• Block everything over 500 characters

Maybe there could be an additional setting for formatted content in general:

• Render fully (default)
• Render partially (the Mastodon 4 way right now)
• Remove all formatting (what Mastodon up until 3 did)
• Block

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