@mathias Bad news. The markdown doesn’t show up in Mastodon, only Friendica. 😕
@ercanbrack
It works fine. You don't see markdown rendered, because your client which finally displays the status to you on the receiving end strips it off and ignores it. I can see the markdown status both in FediLab app, as well as in the web app of my home Mastodon instance.
> Change the client you use and it will radically change your world view.
> -- me right now 🌞
@mathias
Isn't FediLab enough? It connects to friendica, but I never tried.
@ercanbrack
Unfortunately, I have an iphone and don’t use Android.
I’m using the default web client. That’s pretty sad if it is the fault of the default client.
Yes, by default Mastodon emulates Twitter: no rich text formatting, just plaintext. Some instances are heavily customised, like qoto.org where I have my vista. But that is an exception.
I have to admit when I've heard people say "if you run Pleroma [which I started with] it will be lighter to host, at the cost of functionality" but so far I am thinking Pleroma has more, not less, functionality compared to Mastodon. Neither of them have as much functionality as Friendica. Friendica, however, doesn't have (native) apps.