As you may or may not have heard, the latest update to pawb.social saw pawb.fun and furry.engineer updated to use the glitch-soc fork of mastodon! That has given us a bunch of new tools to play with. Including the ability to use markdown in our posts. This post will be a quick howto guide. First, how to even use it in the first place. You will need to click the cog, which will now bring you to this screen:

Go to show content-type choice when authoring toots, and turn that on. You will then see a screen that looks similar to this:

You can either select plain text to write a post as you’re used to, you can use HTML if you know that, or you can use Markdown and take advantage of all of these:

**bold**
*italics*
_underline_
`single line code`
```multi line code```
>block quote
^superscript
~~strikeout~~
# h1
## h2
### h3
#### h4
##### h5
1. testing
   * testing
   * unordered
   * list
2. ordered
3. list

bold

italics

underline

single line code

multi line code

block quote

^superscript

strikeout

h1

h2

h3

h4

h5

1. testing
   • testing
   • unordered
   • list
2. ordered
3. list

(NOTE: if you are going to mix and match ordered and unordered lists, indenting is MANDATORY, otherwise the markdown will just assume everything is supposed to be in the same format as the first list item. So if you start with an asterisk, it will assume everything needs a bullet. If you start with 1, it will assume everything is supposed to be ordered.)

Markdown can also support a limited range of HTML tags. One example is as follows: <abbr title="some text">text</abbr>

We will leave that for you to discover however.

And that’s pretty much everything! If you trip across another markdown tag that is supported, or find something that might not be accurate, feel free to relay it to us! Reminder this markdown will work ONLY if you specifically select Markdown as a content-type