How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
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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?
@reiver Also PieFed I believe, as a Lemmy-inspired and somewhat compatible software
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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?
@reiver Do they support inlining html in markdown as designed https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html ?
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@reiver Do they support inlining html in markdown as designed https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html ?
That is a good question — but, I'm not sure.
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@z6Mki5zHriQp1MrWfAtMNN2WZC43uRZMquT68U4B6dptNcY1/actor" rel="nofollow noopener">Johannes Oschlies hubzilla and streams actually code in BBcode... there is a markdown addon which transforms md to BBcode
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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?
Mastodon Glitch Edition
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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?
@reiver Markdown or its subset is supported by almost every platform except Mastodon.
But PeerTube is the only software I know that puts markdown incontentinstead of HTML. -
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?
@reiver #WriteFreely uses Markdown by default too, but of course sends out HTML to the fediverse
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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?
@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.
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@reiver Markdown or its subset is supported by almost every platform except Mastodon.
But PeerTube is the only software I know that puts markdown incontentinstead of HTML.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
mediaTypeattribute of a note. Not that I know what I expected.Can you explain what goes on in mitra? When
mediaTypeistext/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
contentand addingsourcewith the original, from which the HTML was generated ok. Of course, this leaves the existence of thesummaryandnamefield superfluous. -
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
mediaTypeattribute of a note. Not that I know what I expected.Can you explain what goes on in mitra? When
mediaTypeistext/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
contentand addingsourcewith the original, from which the HTML was generated ok. Of course, this leaves the existence of thesummaryandnamefield superfluous.>Can you explain what goes on in mitra?
When
mediaTypeistext/markdown, the entirecontentis 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 thecontent, since title is prepended to content in Mitra (also a compatibility hack -- for Mastodon API clients). -
>Can you explain what goes on in mitra?
When
mediaTypeistext/markdown, the entirecontentis 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 thecontent, since title is prepended to content in Mitra (also a compatibility hack -- for Mastodon API clients).I think the wrapping in
<p>is just plain good practice because otherwise rendered content could be injected somewhere resulting in invalid HTML.Not that browsers ever reject bad HTML anyway heh</p>
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I think the wrapping in <p> is just plain good practice because otherwise rendered content could be injected somewhere resulting in invalid HTML.
Not that browsers ever reject bad HTML anyway heh</p>
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>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).
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I'd generally discourage RFC7591 in decentralized systems due to the fact that it creates client sprawl (this is currently a problem with Mastodon's client registration mechanism, which is why we created CIMDs) — every client in RFC7591 is a distinct client, with its own client_id and client_secret, which can make client management interfaces difficult to implement (e.g., every time you login on a mobile device or SPA, you'll get a brand new client_id). CIMDs solve this by anchoring client metadata to a URI, and using that URI as the client_id.
If you need to test clients using CIMDs in development, there is cimd-service however, it's currently targeting the AT Protocol ecosystem (so has a few specifics that at present there that would not necessarily make sense of ActivityPub)
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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.
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@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.
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@mariusor that's too bad. All I have left is mussels, French fries, large-scale bureaucracy, and peeing statues.
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@reiver #WriteFreely uses Markdown by default too, but of course sends out HTML to the fediverse
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@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.
