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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@reiver@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?

I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.

Anything else?

#FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #Markdown

julian

@julian@activitypub.space replied · 2 weeks ago

Re: How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?

@reiver@mastodon.social add in NodeBB as well. Markdown first, and probably HTML too, although it will probably be sanitized to death on the way out.

Matt Baer

@matt@writing.exchange replied · 2 weeks ago

@reiver #WriteFreely uses Markdown by default too, but of course sends out HTML to the fediverse

silverpill

@silverpill@mitra.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@reiver Markdown or its subset is supported by almost every platform except Mastodon.
But PeerTube is the only software I know that puts markdown in content instead of HTML.

Helge

@helge@mymath.rocks replied · 2 weeks ago

Speaking of handling markdown. I created funfedi.dev Media Types a while ago (and just added it to the navigation). I lost interest when I saw that nobody properly handled the mediaType attribute of a note. Not that I know what I expected.

Can you explain what goes on in mitra? When mediaType is text/markdown. It changes __bold__ to <p>__bold__</p>, otherwise no paragraph tags. I'm pretty sure, I was once told to use __ for bold and * for emphasize. So my markdown should be good.

Full example ... input activity -> mitra api response

Final note: I am not sure what I would want a proper data format to do. I find the solution of W3C ActivityPub (not W3C ActivityStreams) proposes of putting HTML in content and adding source with the original, from which the HTML was generated ok. Of course, this leaves the existence of the summary and name field superfluous.

Media Types - Interoperability Data for the Fediverse

Media Types

silverpill

@silverpill@mitra.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@helge @reiver

>Can you explain what goes on in mitra?

When mediaType is text/markdown, the entire content is wrapped in a <p> tag. This was done for compatibility with PeerTube. I think <p> was needed to create a space between the title (name) and the content, since title is prepended to content in Mitra (also a compatibility hack -- for Mastodon API clients).