elomatreb 🐟Mastodon 101: A "Subtoot" is a toot written by someone currently travelling in a subway. They are usually used to praise the effects of good public transit infrastructure.
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Nicholas Frota@elomatreb waaait, how do i italicize?
@nonlinear It's just Unicode trickery, math characters
The Big Mammoth@tbm @nonlinear There used to be a way to inject CSS (classes at least) into toot contents, but people abused it to make obnoxious spinning text
@elomatreb @tbm oh no you have to have rules. Standards. Otherwise you open the gates of hell. I was thinking markdown and open graph. It's safe and proper.
Ok, maybe markdown MINUS link (links cannot be masked by text, I mean, but appear as urls or open graph).
@nonlinear @tbm Markdown specifically was discussed previously in the context of Mastodon, I don't know what the final verdict was though.
I think some GNU Social implementations offer styling like italics, but I don't know if they are understood by Mastodon
@elomatreb @tbm markdown is legit... If you know the secret code, you use it. If not, no biggie.
500 characters beg for better formatting.
Speaking as a UI designer, the only part of markdown I'd leave off is links. No [link text](url). Coz major potential for abuse (ppl using link text as one that in fact points to another). I'm sure that are safe workarounds around there.
@nonlinear I'm a little torn on allowing e.g. headings, and e.g. the choice of which extensions to allow (syntax highlighting code blocks, tables, ...)
@elomatreb I wouldn't mind on that... If people get annoying, within their toot, people abandon them. Like when they do with annoying content. People behave.
The goal is to extend capabilities' while keeping security. Or sanity.
I don't see why not markdown. I'd love to organize my toots like idea cards, more formalized.
@nonlinear I'd be fine with it, but I'm not sure I'd use it much.
Some of the previous discussions on this subject (Actually still active): https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/853
@elomatreb they're coming to same conclusion, markdown minus link syntax (that could be used for phishing).