Federating from WriteFreely to Mastodon
I'm writing this post in #WriteFreely a blogging platform that allows blogs to be followed and posts to be boosted on Mastodon.
Formatting
Mastodon only handles plain text, so the examples below probably won't appear properly there.
WriteFreely allows for formatting such as
- italics
- bold
- lists like this
- including
- nested
- lists
- headers like “Formatting” above
console.log("inline code segments")
You can also block-quote text like this.
console.log("Or you can add code blocks")
console.log("like this.")
Linking
You can also embed images
Length
WriteFreely posts can be arbitrarily long, as compared to Mastodon's limit of 500 characters.
- Update: This is what the above part of the post looks like on Mastodon:*
Note, that the post is truncated so it is not longer than a typical Mastodon post. When you click the “Read more” it expands out to the following.
As expected, formatting like italics and bold are omitted, but the biggest loss is that embedded images are not shown.