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When to use Friendica over Mastodon (homehack.nl)
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[–] sxan@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago

I think it comes down to: when we're dealing with truly non-technical users, we hope the clients have some sort of UI to insert codes; very non-tech users aren't going to be very handy with any markup, and the best thing for them is some sort of WYSIWYG interface, or at very least an "insert markup buttons" feature.

For the people writing markup by hand, IMO markup that minimally interferes with reading when it is unline (unrendered) is best. HTML, BBCode, and other heavy markup gets in the way more than (e.g.) djot, asciidoc, markdown, and other languages that descend from intuitively evolved markup from 70's email systems.

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