*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

I am looking forward to the enhancements in GlitchSoc to percolate to other versions and forks.

Our sys admin here, @freemo has already mentioned he would like to merge some of these into the QOTO fork itself.

Time to do that is the problem, but the idea stands.

Cheers, #fediverse ! 😉 🍾 🍷

#mastotips #markdown #glitchsoc #markup #rgMarx

* Glitch Homepage is https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon

I love it, fresh new features include a strictly LOCAL, not federated at all option when you create any post.

But this Toot series is about the MarkDown, and here are the controls that enable it. Or even the choice to use full html tags on post if desired.

* Larger sized image is here : * https://i.postimg.cc/SKkgqsv6/Mastodon-Markup-Enable-large.png

What is going on? HOW did you get that text so?

The first pic was taken at a Glitch-Soc instance, a Mastodon fork which has some new ideas and controls.

The second one shows the same post, as seen on a regular instance, running a fork of mastodon 2.9.3.

The difference is down to MarkDown language, a simple text formatting language I am starting to learn and use on some places (blog, note taking support it.)

(2nd of a series of toots)

We just played around on an unlisted thread, and some fun things were learned.

Do you see any differences?

( first of a series of posts )

@onatinadresi @realcaseyrollins

Yes, and here you are not receiving only what their algorithms select to show you. So annoying, when I made a nice post, have 200 friends or more, maybe 10 people see it.

If one of those doesn't interact with your post, the rest will never see it.

Just posts that are liked and get little emoji replies are more widely show.

Had enough of their repetitive posts, not even visiting now.

@kkhanam If that is the one, a good way to keep a bookmark on a post it to either:

* Boost it, and it will show on your own profile Toots.

* put a reply on topic, also will show.

* use a custom hashtag in your post, Karl uses a cool one he invented, #bookmarx which relates to his username.

@kkhanam This one?

https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103196177872867107

@kkhanam We can try, KK.

Might have been me.

@realcaseyrollins

LOL, that was funny yes. *sheeple*

@Hulu

Have made a mirror copy of my Blog posted listed above, here at our QOTO.org Discourse Forums.

Why? Well, maybe someone wants to read and leave a comment, or maybe they will just stumble into it while visiting the Forums.

Can be seen here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/to-help-new-users-set-up-todon-101-page-also-learn-about-fediverse-trunk/144

@realcaseyrollins @freemo

Let us know, maybe on your profile here, what you are active on and can share expertise, maybe what line of studies you are in.

I love collecting and organizing tid bits and presenting them in a nice format so people can grasp it easier.

@realcaseyrollins @freemo Wonderful, live and learn, everyday.

TY!!

@realcaseyrollins
Does it allow you to enter an URL and submit for archiving it? Have used the site but never added a new one.

@freemo

@realcaseyrollins @freemo vsih now has "This domain is for sale.
Please contact steve@amdo.com"

@realcaseyrollins
Oooh, that is a pain. When something breaks and you lose all that work.

I used to place all the images for my forum posts, web, etc in a free hosting site. Worked well, was fast.

And then, it wasn't. Disappeared overnight, and all these, hundreds of posts, had no more images on them.

Was called Very Simple Image Host, https://vsih.com was easy to remember and gave shorter image links.

Even imageshark screwed me and other users up too, when they decided to not serve images for whatever reason.

We need things that stay online, otherwise our publications are damage and no one wants to go back and re-edit them all.

@freemo

...I hadn't - discovered it earlier this afternoon. Very interesting!

Made a series of Toots about it, and since I started a new blog (finally), a blog post with the same content and polish, text formatting, etc.

Find out about Trunk for Fediverse - https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/to-help-new-users-set-up-todon-101-page

#followfriday

@realcaseyrollins @freemo I think it would be a perfect fit for a stem instance.

@realcaseyrollins @freemo That is awesome.

I see it's a Python file, so you run it locally and enter the URL for the desired feed?

Maybe we could host the SciAm one here?

@realcaseyrollins

Just signed up for all the ones on Tinysubs, and SciAm at the birdsite since it seems to have been in operation already, lots of toots.

Are yours tested and running already?

Will spread the word. 🙇

@freemo