Question about the fediverse: I've seen some posts with links in them where the link text is not a URL. Is that a feature that works on any Mastodon instance if you use the right client, or would it require me to move to a different server? I'd like to be able to include proper hyperlinks that don't break the flow of the text; bare URLs inline are particularly annoying for screen reader users.
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •Or just eragon.re being displayed as a link ? ( eragon.re )
In my case this is written in markdown, then my server translate it in html, which is the true nature of any textual post on the fediverse. Mastodon doesn't support Markdown itself but it supports displaying the html from any post.
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •You'd need to switch server (or encourage your current server's admins to patch).
Posts are represented in ActivityPub as HTML The vanilla Mastodon software does some sanitisation of the HTML, but it accepts more formatting in posts than it allows you to create locally.