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I think something very annoying about #mastodon is there isn’t a universal rich text format. I have better control of the look of text in #iMessage…
I guess it isn’t an easy thing to fix. Even declaring a bunch of html tags are ok would run into other limitations like post sizes being limit to 500 characters. It’s an endless onion of things that would need to get tweaked so I can make something <b>bold</b>?
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@bryan 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙚. 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙃𝙊𝘼 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙠 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩.
@Unabart
What client is doing this fancy Unicode? 🤔
@bryan Ha! None. I used a web page that converts to varying styles. I’d love to see some rich text native to Mastodon, bit I also fear it would be horribly abused, like any web forum that allowed it.
@Unabart
I’m so so so so uncaring about supposed “abuse”. 😂
I just want 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴, s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶, u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲d̲, … 😊
@bryan Every time I leave alt-text off an image, some lonely twat will set down the Mountain Dew long enough to scold me for not considering the blind in my posts. With the unicode, this supposedly breaks text to speech. When the author of Mastodon released the first official client, thin on features, this same group of interlosers ganged up on the author, ad hominem, for not including everything for everyone, everywhere all at once, for free.
¡achtung! With the unicode! The trolls will pounce.
@Unabart
I’m sorry but I’m now hung up on why you hate the blind! How dare you!
@bryan I should have seen that coming. But alas, no alt-text!