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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

At this point what even lets you write several paragraphs and use italics if you feel like it, the way that, you know, Livejournal did, back in the days before they took italics and complete thoughts away from us for some reason?

Which then led the plague of people using unicode math symbols to get bold and the accompanying cry from the screenreader users all because they had to arbitrarily take away something taken for granted on messageboards and back in LJ days.

I liked Pillowfort a lot when I used it (there's lots of ways to curate what you see and what you don't, and communities are a great idea) and it can be decently active, but what I didn't like was how I can't have any side-pages/side-blogs; I'd have to make completely separate accounts, which is clunky and annoying.

Mastodon is Not Good Software and it makes me mad that it is the sort of default champion of activitypub. I imagined a bright future where cohost and tumblr and all kinds of not-just-twitter-clone sites got on the activitypub bandwagon eventually but of course nothing like that ever happened.

pillowfort kinda got some nasty stank on it thanks to that weirdo doing drama hunting on cohost. also, as someone else pointed out, when has anyone, EVER, talked about or shared something from pillowfort? The fact it's still kicking is a shock, tbh.

the one thing I'll say about mastodon, is that long form posts suck to read in most of its given UIs.
and on the 'deck' web UI on mastodon, any post beyond a certain length is chopped off at the top.
and there's an overly aggressive CW culture there.
also like, your post having a subject line makes it hide behind the same "show more" button a CW would.

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

this is why i like fediverse. there's issues but long as you pick a principled server most of these issues are solved... i like tech.lgbt. it's a big instance with alot of queer people and they block most of the really bad instances.

the glitch fork of mastodon, yeah. bold, italic, bold italic, inline hyperlinks, bulleted and numbered lists, headings… and my instance has a 3621-character limit. if you would like an invite Just In Case i'd be glad to give ya one!

edit: idk why people are saying mastodon can't see the formatting. simply not true lol. i have a secondary account on a mainline mastodon instance and just tested it and can see all the formatting in my post from my glitch instance!