Markdown support patch for Mastodon

Mastodon displays properly Markdown posts from other instances, but doesn't allow creating posts with it. I'm trying to fix this. I know there is glitch-soc, but I don't want to switch to a fork for a single feature. So is there a patch for mainstream Mastodon that adds this functionality?

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dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de · 12 pts · 166d (1 reply)

Mastodon does in fact not render markdown from other instances. They get converted to HTML by the sender instance.

myszka@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 166d

Oh that's an important detail, thanks!

dudesss@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 166d (2 replies)

Markdown... Mastodon... I like where this is going 🍺

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 166d (1 reply)

Marktowndon?

dudesss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 166d

I mean, if you will

mat@zelk.space · 2 pts · 166d (3 replies)

@myszka the cleanest way to do this would be to just allow Mastodon users to create "Articles" in ActivityPub actors and enable markdown support in them imo

myszka@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 166d (2 replies)

Thanks! I am an absolute newb in this. Is there a patch that does that?

mat@zelk.space · 1 pts · 166d (1 reply)

@myszka I think a fork would be necessary to add it

you could also create a feed that fetches articles only, it would be dope!

myszka@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 165d

Okay, thanks!