Post #2465803

2026-05-10 19:00 UTC

Long rant incoming... I hadn&#39;t looked at the BIO text field of my own Mastodon profile on the Web in quite awhile. Long ago I formatted it with one extra carriage return between each paragraph to increase legibility. But now it&#39;s rendered as a compressed, hard to read single blob with no vertical spaces. WTF?!? Why is Mastodon taking away my agency and butchering my typography? Is this going to happen to our posts next? This insulting and unnecessary change needs to be backed out! 1/3

Replies (5)

@lisamelton@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 19:01

You all know I'm trans. So, I care a LOT about presentation, about how I look and how I'm perceived. In a medium that is primarily text-based, I would think it's important to preserve the manner in which the author's text is formatted. ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT AUTHOR IS DESCRIBING THEMSELVES! Look, I might as well just change the BIO text field to: "See https://lisamelton.net/about/ because Mastodon constrains self expression" Am I upset about this issue? Yes! Aren't you? 2/3

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@griff@loma.ml 2026-05-10 19:02

@lisamelton@mastodon.social I just looked, rant is deserved

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@stx@mastodon.scot 2026-05-10 19:03

@lisamelton@mastodon.social it looks ok just now, or did you redo it?

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@aburka@hachyderm.io 2026-05-10 19:03

@lisamelton@mastodon.social still rendering correctly in Phanpy

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@metaning@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 19:12

@lisamelton@mastodon.social tech people ignoring, or disregarding, or not even considering consent. Whoda thunk it.

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