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Just want to plug markdown as a phenomenal resource. You can use it to write documentation both online and offline, and with pandoc you can even use it to create beautiful PDF documents from your computer. Here’s some places I use markdown daily, some additional resources, and tips
- GitHub parses markdown files from their web UI by default
- Obsidian uses markdown for their note taking application
- Pandoc can convert Markdown files to other formats including PDF
- Because it’s plaintext, there are fewer formatting errors when moving between applications and you don’t even need an application to read them
- Plaintext also means documents can be easily tracked via source control
- Lemmy and Reddit both use Markdown
- Discord uses a variation of Markdown
The Markdown will be passed in the ActivityPub messages in plaintext, so it’s up to the app developer how to interpret the Markdown. Looks like someone already created a ticket on GitHub so I’d recommend either adding a thumbs up to increase visibility or make the change yourself if you’re able!