Why there is no Science Server on Mastodon? We need a Science Server in this network! Why there is no Doctor Who or Sci-Fi server? Please, help! If any, let me know!!!!

@vielbein Wait, what're you talking about? Qoto is a STEM-oriented instance... isn't that science enough for you?!

@trinsec Oh, yeah! But I believed here we had more specialized stuff...LoL Perhaps we are in the beginning of decentralizing specialized stuff...Not sure...

@vielbein I dunno, what specialized stuff would there have to be? We've got a list of nice extra features that you can see in the About page, some of which are useful for scientific articles.

And besides Qoto there are a few more science-oriented instances, so there are definitely some science servers around.

@trinsec Now, I have seen, but It has waiting list, that ...Can I use LaTeX rendering here, like $x^2=y$

@vielbein Not yet. @freemo has to fix it, but it is the intention that it'll be usable again.

@trinsec @freemo Having LaTeX rendering here It is clearly an improvement on Twitter, where I have to post...neverending pictures I forget where I put them, lol...

@vielbein @trinsec @freemo We **do** have Markdown support, though, which is a ***massive*** improvement over Twitter.

@mathlover @trinsec @freemo Markdown??? What is that?

@vielbein @trinsec @freemo It allows text formatting in messages without the pain of using full HTML.

To enable it, go to the third icon from the left in the tweet composition box, click it, and select Markdown.

@mathlover @trinsec @freemo I activated markdown but yet I don't understand its use...lol

@vielbein Markdown is a standardized easy-to-write language for basic things like bolded text, italics, headings, links, quote blocks, code blocks, etc.

Look it up, there'll be plenty of resources telling you the gist of it. :)

@mathlover @freemo

@trinsec @mathlover @freemo Tutorial on markdown anywhere here to read it?

@vielbein Just search online, there are so many guides about it. First hit: https://www.markdownguide.org
:P

@mathlover @freemo