I wish Mastodon had a way to mark up parts of a toot as block code, like reddit, stackoverflow, markdown, etc., all support.

Guess I could paste an image instead, but that's not what I want to do. I want to mark a few lines of text so it shows up differently. Possibly use a monospace font if possible for those lines.

Testing to see what `backtick` does.

```
This is a test.
```

What about tilde?

~~~
Another line.
~~~

I suspect none of this will turn out like I would hope.

Seems this is a hot topic. Add your support to this issue if you'd like to see something like BB or Markdown when creating posts: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23981
Add support for posting with Markdown syntax · Issue #23981 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Requests to add support for posting with Markdown formatting has come up many times in the past, so this is a proposal to formalize the recent efforts. I'm not against other forms of markup f...

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