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I’m curious about the state of formatting support across the fediverse.

This is a test post, authored in Markdown via the glitch-soc frontend.

This text should be bold.

This text should be in italics.

This text should have a strikethrough.

This text should be monospace.

If you see this post, please share a screenshot of it, and tell me which client app or web frontend you’re using. Thank you.

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Mayank
Mayank
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Alex Forster
Alex Forster
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IceCubes on iOS, no formatting whatsoever, but it also seems to have stripped out markdown characters (if there were any to begin with?)
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Pete Ashton
Pete Ashton
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Mona on macOS. (It’s not a great app but I appreciate it for being just the right amount of annoying to reduce my screen time.)
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bri
bri
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toot! on ios (has not been updated in about a year, so i’m not terribly surprised…)
screenshot of luna’s post; no formatting (nor their control characters) is present
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
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@JackEric mastodon web v4.2.13 looks identical, too.
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Mini
Mini
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Moshidon on Android works mostly but seems to ignore monospace unless the font is already monospace
screenshot of the parent post on Moshidon
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etc
etc
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Ivory for iOS v2.2.3, openvibe (also iOS) v1.3.4, both of which failed to do any formatting at all, and what I assume is the standard web front end for mastodon v4.2.13.

I like ivory, but the lack of text formatting is particularly irritating. One thing you didn’t test was lists, which it smooshes together into a single paragraph 🫤

Ivory for iOS v2.2.3. All formatting was ignored.
Openvibe for iOS, version 1.3.4. All formatting was ignored.
Standard web front end for mastodon v4.2.13. All text formatting performed correctly.
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Rory B
Rory B
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Android app from Mastodon themselves has no formatting, just the raw text
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Bearmine
Bearmine
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another good one to test is bullet points. Those usually come through all screwed up for me. Just all smashed together with zero white space between bullets.
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zumphry
zumphry
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Like other folks using Ivory on iOS, macOS version also shows no formatting support:
The above post of Luna’s, shown without text formatting on the macOS version of Ivory
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Shyra “Tech Ambrosia”
Shyra “Tech Ambrosia”
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Web client, Mastodon 4.0.15 on bitbang.social

I miss the cool formatting in glitch-soc

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