@musicmatze I won't do an MS Github login, which greatly increases the effort because it means I have to try to track down a developer. And I don't do Facebook either, which often leaves email. The major email providers (gmail, outlook, etc) block email from me. So putting it out on Mastodon on the off chance that the right person notices is sadly the best option these days.

@resist1984 nice! Congrats on being able to skip these services! 🚀 👍

@resist1984 @musicmatze looks like it worked, I'm a diaspora developer. What do you miss in the current markdown interpreter?

@fla @musicmatze In Diaspora some symbols don't render correctly, such as the test tube (🧪) Also, the HTML tag "<details>" is commonly accepted in markdown, but not Diaspora's flavor of markdown. A common problem with most implementations is wrapping. I compose in emacs and use control-q for readable markdown, but #Diaspora takes the newlines literally.

@anmol Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but the markdown needs a lot of work. Things that are broken: ordered lists, tables, reference links, the <details> tag, & asterisks fail to italicize inside of quotes.

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In #Fediverse, no other platform gives option to use #HTML, #BBcode and #Markdown at the same time. You will have to use combination of these to have a nicer looking result.
The problem is what looks good on one platform may not look the same on other.
Anyways you may check #Wordpress as it is a #CMS and will have lot of #plugins to support Markdown. Even #Hubzilla has #Articles and #Wiki in it, but they don't federate. You will have to paste links on  your Fediverse accounts.

@anmol the docs page times out for me, so I didn't realize it supported a mix of languages. that definitely sounds interesting though. I think in principle it would be most useful if it supported GitHub Flavored Markdown, which has this spec: https://github.github.com/gfm/ in addition to your other extensions.

@anmol That would really help portability to Zap, so someone could use gitea to draft an article then publish it on zap.

Then you can use #Plume
It has #CommonMark which is a close version of Markdown Markdown reference ⋅ Plume documentation

Markdown is the syntax Plume uses to format your articles and comments Plume supports the CommonMark version of Markdown. On top of that, we added a few custom extensions: You can add color to your code with the following syntax: Language is the name of the language you are using. The supported languages are those in this repository since we use Su...

@gerowen satellite.earth is a #CloudFlare site, so that's a non-starter. Thanks for trying though.