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starting in Jan 24! Free for Scottish-domiciled/£799 otherwise, more info on how to apply at https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/microcredentials/applieddataskillsforprocessingandpresentingdata/

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I'm a bit annoyed by the lack of #markdown support on #Mastodon.

Countless issues have been open over the past 5 years, countless PRs submitted, and every time the developers come up with a new blocker ("it's unsafe"/"it's hard to implement"/"it doesn't fit the purpose of a social with max 500 characters per toot"/"but Markdown isn't the only possible format"), and eventually nothing moves.

My instance is patched to support up to 10,000 characters. And it's hard to write long posts where the reader's attention doesn't get lost if those are polluted with raw links, or don't have text/code formatting, because the underlying platform doesn't support them.

Does anyone know if there are some working forks out there that 100% support markdown posts, so I can import their changes into my fork? Otherwise, I may go on and implement it myself. It shouldn't be hard in Ruby to just install CommonMarker as a dependency and render Markdown content as HTML.