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Oh no I am falling down a black hole.....
@FailForward it will only render as we see it on QOTO on a few instances, it uses the miskey format for quotes so misskey instances will see it rendered properly and a few other instances.
@Matt should still see it as a link attached to the post though so it will still "work" for him in a sense.
Yes with so many flavors on the fediverse that is true. The problem is that it is also willful from some developers.
All the stuff I added I tried to use standards as much as they exist. The issue is that some developers intentionally want to break consistent rendering for their own vision, so it isnt a bug it is a "feature" in their mind.
Take the markdown stuff, it converts the markdown into html tags so rendering should be consistent across all clients without any need for a client to do anything to support it. However Gargron, and thus vanilla mastodon, specifically invisions a no-rich text scenario. They felt rich text was offensive to many users. So they go out of their way to strip it out and remove it, actually taking extra steps to **break** from the standard. He had considered making that feature optional but ultimately rejected it as the developer who implemented it got frustrated with the repeated rejection of his PR and i think the community gave him a hard time about it so he dropped the feature kind of out of spite for how he was being treated.
So sadly consistent rendering is something that is impossible to really garuntee. I think qoto probably handles and renders the most standards that are out there really, we handle rich text, and quoting and math latex (though thats buggy and i need to fix it soon)... we pretty much handle it all.
Assuming the backend doesnt filter it out first, then yes. I beleive in mastodon the backend filters out the rich text before the front end even gets it.
@freemo @FailForward @Matt I think as we are a science based instance then the nice rendering is important esp with the LaTeX support.
@FailForward @freemo @Matt Agreeed, I know we are not 'competing' with systems such as Facebook / Twitter per se, but those platforms are consistant, we need something that is too. Users will expect that if they spend time writing something nice, they expect others to be able to read it.
Maybe it will be down to user pressure, but that relies on users discussing the issue and saying what they would like.
Well facebook accomplishes that by getting everyone on facebook... so we can do the same, just get everyone to use QOTO :)
@freemo @FailForward @Matt Yeah, good point, am trying to set up a study support group
https://personaljournal.ca/studysupportgroup/
But focus on Science mostly and Qoto and the Discourse forums are ideal for this perhaps.
You are certainly welcome to use all the QOTO resources to that end, our nextcloud may also be helpful.
@freemo @FailForward @Matt Thanks,
I have figured out (eventually) how to play a video stored on Next cloud inside Big Blue Button which may help too.
Main reasoning is most support groups are on Facebook, so having something on the Fediverse may help those of us who choose a path but still need help or want to help others.
@freemo@qoto.org @FailForward @Matt ya misskey rocks