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 no css inject per user (this is CRAZY insecure! And ugly), and another cool stuff is open graph... Like when twitter and Facebook replace link with card (with title, description, image). That's WAY more informative than plain links.
@nonlinear IIRC it wasn't full CSS injection, you could only select classes that would be applied (and since Mastodon has a spinning-text class for some reason, you could make your toots spin)
@elomatreb that's kinda the whole point of markdown, eh? Rich text on plain text, best of both worlds?
Style should be defined top down... Either per tool (like now), per instance (nice touch) or per user, from presets (still top down). Anything else is opening a can of worms.
@elomatreb but you gotta separate styling from formatting.
Formatting is legit and useful. Styling is, hard.