@jwildeboer In short: it requires a refactor of the whole message parsing & generation code. AP messages are HTML, so you need to transform this Markdown to HTML, safely and efficiently. But if the user then wants to edit their post, you need to show them the Markdown again.
Glitch SOC does it in a problematic way, and we explored alternatives without (yet) figuring out an obvious path for having it in Mastodon.
@renchap Not really that complex, IMHO. You could happily use (limited) markdown internally and only convert to html when federating. Note that using the internal representation is only needed when editing an existing message. I don’t see any case where a mastodon instance has to convert back and forth for messages received through federation. @taschenorakel
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@jwildeboer I don’t know what more I can say. We spent some time on this and did not (yet) find a good solution. If you think this is trivial and we are missing something, I would be glad to approve your Pull Request implementing it.