Post #4187413
2026-07-29 00:42 UTC
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@Pamasich@kbin.earth 2026-07-29 07:27
I do see the formatting on your instance too, so it is probably voyager that's the culprit here. I assume it relies on the source field on posts for the formatting, which contains the post in Markdown. But that's a threadiverse feature, Mastodon doesn't support that. The actual intended way to federate formatting on the protocol is to send it as HTML and then the receiving server interprets the HTML. The actual projects like Piefed and Lemmy understand that the Markdown isn't universal and so fall back to interpreting the HTML when it's not present. So the post appears as intended there. But I guess apps might not be as thorough there and solely rely on the Markdown with no fallback. So when there is no Markdown, the formatting is lost to them. Just my thoughts on the matter though, haven't actually looked at the code.