What happens when links done in Markdown syntax here encounter interfaces that can’t handle Markdown? Are they displayed as the syntax itself (which would be fine, you can still access the URL), or does it just turn into normal text, the URL gone?
Here’s a great video about how the HIV works on the body, for a test.
Found an answer in the Announcement post when Markdown was introduced to Qoto:
Keep in mind that while many other fediverse serves will view the rich text not all servers can or will and the formatting will be converted into html in a best-effort to remain compatible. For examples vanilla Mastodon instances reject all special formatting, but links from markdown should still be correctly rendered, but bold and other formatting will be filtered out on Mastodon. Pleorma and other software which allows rich-text should properly render the markdown.
So basically, it seems like links should likely work everywhere without a problem, it’s just fancy text rendering that’s likely to get stripped out elsewhere.
@digital_carver Woah, wait, **Markdown** is supported?
Btw, I'm using Tusky and your post contains a link.
Woah, wait, Markdown is supported?
On Qoto it is, nice and fancy! Looks like not on fosstodon though - unless there’s an option for ‘status content type’ that you can change when posting?
Btw, I’m using Tusky and your post contains a link.
Yeah, Tusky, Fedilab and Subway Tooter all seem to be fine rendering text-labeled links, a pleasant surprise.
So, communication among Fediverse instances isn’t as seamless as I thought, it seems. Opening my profile on other Fedi servers, one server thinks my last toot was two weeks ago, another seems to be picking up one toot every few days and dropping the others. Neither showed the above toot in the page, so I still don’t know how the Markdown thing works. (Mobile clients seem to support the mardown/richtext more commonly than I expected, which is nice.)