Formatted toots
Unlike Mastodon, glitch-soc supports some formatting in toots.
Formatted toots are displayed as such in the glitch flavor but can be degraded
in the vanilla flavor and some mobile apps.
Please be aware that most of the toot formatting will be stripped by mainline Mastodon,
which may lead to the meaning of your toots being altered.
Allowed formatting
Allowed formatting is in glitch-soc toots include: headers, bold, italics, strikethrough, blockquotes, inline code, code blocks, subscript, superscript and lists.
Authoring formatted toots
Toots can be written in three source formats:
- Plain text: toots are treated like in vanilla Mastodon, and are not formatted
- Markdown: toots can be written in Markdown, as understood by Redcarpet
- HTML: toots are written directly in HTML (but sanitized to strip any unsupported formatting)
You can write toots in Markdown or HTML from the glitch flavour by first enabling “Show content-type choice when authoring toots”
in the “Compose box” tab of the app settings.
Then, for each toot, you can select whether you want to want to author them in Plain text, Markdown or HTML by using the content-type drop-down:
In addition to that, you can set your default content-type from the user settings. Toots posted from applications which do not support glitch-soc’s toot formatting will be understood as written in that selected content-type.
