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

Story Time. Joining the Internet in the mid 90's.

Just finished editing a new Blog post, with the story of how I first joined the Internet, in the mid 1990's.

You can see the page at my Blog here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/joining-the-internet-in-the-mid-90s

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Dr Freeman's vehicle spotted on the wild... 😜

@freemo

All cozy...

Keeping an eye on the #fediverse

#MarkDown language is a new thing I am learning and starting to use.

Last night I posted a topic here about a MarkDown tutorial, which is available in English, Spanish and French. Took a couple hours later to do it and was impressed.

* Topic: https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103304062981695684

Very, very well done, simple and demonstrates the commands to format text by explaining them, giving you an area to type in and format text with a preview window besides.

Spent more time after and edited a whole Blog post I had made, formatted with HTML Markup language and which was not kosher yet.

Resulted in a much cleaner and prettier page.

I just copied the revise Blog post here to Discourse forums : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/qoto-moderator-nomination-process-my-personal-thoughts-and-notes-on-user-participation/143

This one is set on Public view, can be checked anonymously.

The previous edition is on the Moderation area, and can be seen by logged in users only, not anonymous, but it's here if you want to compare: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/qoto-moderator-nomination-process-notes/117/5

#MovieNight anyone?

ReToot of Ella's post

:WeAreNameless:​ #WeAreNameless, we have a movie session today, 14 of December, with Cherry 2000 (1987) at 23:00 UTC! ​

CWs at: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/parentalguide

:WeAreNameless:​ Need a place to watch? You've got #OTV: https://otvstudios.net

UTC⏱️: https://time.is/UTC

First time I see my @slowlyapp Slowlyapp profile in Japanese. Courtesy of a new #penpal in #Nippon . #xp #penpals are great for #writers

**Learn about #Slowly app at https://getslowly.com/en

Lovely collection, great taste. 💕

#xp #Caturday is on #cats #mastocats #CatsOfTwitter #fediverse
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Master of disguise.
https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/1163114583453814785

How lovely are the #Slowly stamps? Adds colour and interest to our #penpal letters. Great people in the @slowlyapp community too. Slowly is for #writers ... #xp #friendship #mastotips
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RT @joongkyom
Different colors, the same smile.
We are the world.
#slowlyapp#stamps
@slowlyapp https://t.co/znqYfBYCs@slowlyapp@twitter.activitypub.actor
https://twitter.com/joongkyom/status/1089380460579287042

*if I could only relax. so. completely. like. that... ZzzZzzzzZ

#kitties #mastocats #catsofmastodon #xp for #cats #lovers
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My summer body 💪😻
#jellybellyfriday #catsoftwitter #cats #tgif #tabbytroop #fridaymotivation
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Loneliness is really a serious problem. Talk to a friend, we are here for you. #fediverse #qoto #mastodon #newusers #xp
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Loneliness is a serious public-health problem https://econ.st/2yHWO44
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1158853427042168834

Gorgeous Photography for #fediverse friends. #xp
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Space Station star trails.
https://twitter.com/AntonioParis/status/1185663178295918599

And I just worked for a couple hours, soon time for bed.

Completed this tutorial, linked above, and it is VERY good. Well explained, with examples, you enter markdown format until you get it right and it allows you to go on to the next step. (or hit cancel, if you can't figure out why it's not as expected).

After reading and practicing, I needed to work on a real project, and I knew one of my recent Blog posts could use some work -- some of the text was jagged, not right, I had used html markup and was the best I could do at the time.

With some back and forth, I copied the whole post from one blog instance to another, as a Backup so I wouldn't break it (and regret).

Turned out NICE. Finally, the jaggedness is gone. The numbered list is progressing as expected.

AND - the formatting for the lists and headers is much shorter and easier than HTML ones.

Will post here the two, Before and After. so you can see the difference.

* BEFORE : https://wordsmith.social/rgx/qoto-moderator-nomination-process

* AFTER : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/qoto-moderator-nomination-process-notes

Happy and ready to wind down a productive day. Good night, #fedi verse.

🇬🇧 MarkDown language is a simplified form of creating a variety of text styles. Bold, Italicized, Underline, Header (text) sizes, all in much shorter and easier commands than classic HTML Markup language.

Note the name, a play on the HTML variant.

The Interactive MarkDown tutorial is also available in ENGLISH for those who are more comfortable in that language.

See it here: https://www.markdowntutorial.com/

🇬🇧 MarkDown language is a simplified form of creating a variety of text styles. Bold, Italicized, Underline, Header (text) sizes, all in much shorter and easier commands than classic HTML Markup language.

Note the name, a play on the HTML variant.

If you speak Spanish, there are LESS resources to learn about this and other tech topics.

Found a Blog post here that explains the Basics, in Spanish, and links to another site with an interactive tutorial.

🇪🇸 El lenguaje MarkDown es una forma simplificada de crear una variedad de estilos de texto. Tamaños en negrita, en cursiva, subrayado, encabezado (texto), todo en comandos mucho más cortos y fáciles que el lenguaje de marcado HTML clásico.

Anote el nombre, una reproducción en la variante HTML.

Si habla español, hay menos recursos para aprender sobre este y otros temas tecnológicos.

Encontramos una entrada de blog aquí que explica los conceptos básicos, en español, y enlaces a otro sitio con un tutorial interactivo.

Blog intro es ahí; https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2019/09/23/tutorial-de-markdown-en-espanol/

y el tutorial para aprenderlo : https://www.markdowntutorial.com/es/

We were discussing this the other day.

Found in the #fediverse, and I agree.

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)