Chris TrottierExciting! Mastodon may soon see support for incoming rich text.
Which means that more formatting options will be seen in Mastodon.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23913
See screenshot for what this might look like.
Per FunkeI hope the "Paste as unformatted text" alternative is in the same package?
Jupiter Rowland@Per Funke You won't be able to write formatted text either way. This is a read-only feature that'll let you see bold type, italics etc. in posts coming in from outside Mastodon.
And even if you could write formatted text, it wouldn't be by formatting it in Word with point-and-click and then copy-pasting it into Mastodon with all formatting.
It'd be Markdown. Markdown means
But again, you won't be able to do that. You'll only be able to see it from others.
And even if you could write formatted text, it wouldn't be by formatting it in Word with point-and-click and then copy-pasting it into Mastodon with all formatting.
It'd be Markdown. Markdown means
**bold**, __bold__, *italics*, _italics_ etc. You'd have to "program" the formatting into your toots by hand. This isn't Word-style WYSIWYG.But again, you won't be able to do that. You'll only be able to see it from others.
Michael Gemar@jupiter_rowland I can't see this feature only being available to external posts for very long -- users will demand that they can do what they're seeing in others' posts.
Thanks for the info. I'm slightly disappointed but will survive.
@Michael Gemar Those who'll nag Eugen about it will mostly be those who still "know" that the Fediverse is only Mastodon, and who think that these pretty posts must come from some modified Mastodon instances.
Those who don't will migrate to elsewhere in the Fediverse where you can format your posts. Places where all those cool formatted posts come from.
Those who don't will migrate to elsewhere in the Fediverse where you can format your posts. Places where all those cool formatted posts come from.
Kat M. Moss@jupiter_rowland Where do most of these posts come from? I'm cruiosu because there are lots of reasons why I don't much care for Mastodon, though I'm sort of stuck with it at the moment. I would love to try a different tack. Suggestions? #FediverseNews.
@Kat M. Moss I think size and growth don't matter. #MissKey is currently exploding, but from a huge influx of Japanese users.
Right now, the cool kids in town seem to be #Akkoma, #GoToSocial and good old #Friendica.
Right now, the cool kids in town seem to be #Akkoma, #GoToSocial and good old #Friendica.