As you may or may not have heard, the latest update to pawb.social saw pawb.fun and furry.engineer updated to use the glitch-soc fork of mastodon! That has given us a bunch of new tools to play with. Including the ability to use markdown in our posts. This post will be a quick howto guide. First, how to even use it in the first place. You will need to click the cog, which will now bring you to this screen:

Go to show content-type choice when authoring toots, and turn that on. You will then see a screen that looks similar to this:

You can either select plain text to write a post as you’re used to, you can use HTML if you know that, or you can use Markdown and take advantage of all of these:

**bold**
*italics*
_underline_
`single line code`
```multi line code```
>block quote
^superscript
~~strikeout~~
# h1
## h2
### h3
#### h4
##### h5
1. testing
   * testing
   * unordered
   * list
2. ordered
3. list

bold

italics

underline

single line code

multi line code

block quote

superscript

strikeout

h1

h2

h3

h4

h5
  1. testing
    • testing
    • unordered
    • list
  2. ordered
  3. list

(NOTE: if you are going to mix and match ordered and unordered lists, indenting is MANDATORY, otherwise the markdown will just assume everything is supposed to be in the same format as the first list item. So if you start with an asterisk, it will assume everything needs a bullet. If you start with 1, it will assume everything is supposed to be ordered.)

Markdown can also support a limited range of HTML tags. One example is as follows: <abbr title="some text">text</abbr>

We will leave that for you to discover however.

And that’s pretty much everything! If you trip across another markdown tag that is supported, or find something that might not be accurate, feel free to relay it to us! Reminder this markdown will work ONLY if you specifically select Markdown as a content-type

  • Egypt Urnash@pawb.social
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    How much of a pain in the ass was moving to the Glitch fork? I’m currently in the middle of moving dragon.style from mainline 3.4.6 to mainline 4.1.2, so I can then update to 4.1.3 and get those new security holes closed, and am hoping to have energy left over to move to Glitch 4.1.3 once that’s done.

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      1 year ago

      It was actually remarkably simple to do, just following the guide on the docs page, but we were on 4.1.2 so here be dragons if you’re on 3.4.6. But, Glitch-soc does make you do both sets of migrations just in case, so it might be fine.

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        1 year ago

        Ah cool, that’s good to know. It’ll be my reward for spending another day swearing at the remote site until I finally find whichever cache is serving up a bunch of old code/resources/something; this has been a long-ass upgrade for me.

        (I would make a crack about ‘here be dragons’ given that my instance is dragon.style, but I am too tired to be clever. :) )