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?

]]>https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/topic/e69befcf-eb29-423e-91ed-733a2ff80b7f/markdown-support-patch-for-mastodonRSS for NodeThu, 09 Apr 2026 23:08:38 GMTFri, 06 Mar 2026 22:32:41 GMT60Markdown… Mastodon… I like where this is going

]]>https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/22072091https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/22072091Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:18:33 GMTThanks! I am an absolute newb in this. Is there a patch that does that?

]]>https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/24379571https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/24379571Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:21:01 GMTOh that’s an important detail, thanks!

]]>https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/24379554https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/24379554Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:20:01 GMTMastodon does in fact not render markdown from other instances. They get converted to HTML by the sender instance.

]]>https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://lemmy.helios42.de/comment/2713229https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://lemmy.helios42.de/comment/2713229Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:04:20 GMT@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

]]>https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://zelk.space/users/mat/statuses/116184726768745594https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/post/https://zelk.space/users/mat/statuses/116184726768745594Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:03:58 GMT