<![CDATA[Mentioned-only notes on Mastodon have no markup]]>TIL that when you send Mastodon a mentioned-only note, all HTML tags are stripped.

Just... whyyyyyy....

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There are only few exceptions. Bold type, italics, bullet-point lists (numbered lists are converted) etc. And even these have only been implemented since Mastodon 4. The entire first Twitter migration wave and large parts of the second one landed in a seemingly plain-text-only Fediverse.

But quotes of any and all kinds are still "sanitised" away.]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/343e3b98-1bf1-4d6a-9e18-a1f6e5689966https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/343e3b98-1bf1-4d6a-9e18-a1f6e5689966Tue, 08 Oct 2024 08:48:27 GMT