Post #3149582

@vor@lgbtqia.space @lisamelton@mastodon.social @ivory@tapbots.social I use a double dash instead of an emdash. It personalizes my toots. This is an aesthetic choice, mine. Yet when I type a double dash, the software that runs this place forces it to turn into an emdash. I get around this by typing a double dash into a text file and the cutting and pasting it into the toot. This is an affront to my personal autonomy. Admins, please fix this. It’s unseemly to disrespect the autonomy of content providers. It’s not like we were getting paid or anything. All we get out of contributing content here and not someplace else is autonomy. We’re owed at least that much. A double dash that has been forcibly into an emdash is what used be called “bowdlerized”. Do we really want Mastodon to be known for being bowdlerizers? I think not.