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Noticed that the way #Mastodon sanitizes HTML coming from other instances flattens out block quotes in addition to removing other #formatting.
(Totally separate from the quote-toot debate.)
If I follow someone on WordPress or GoToSocial or Calckey etc. and they include an indented quote, when it shows up in Mastodon, it'll look like the quote is just another paragraph.
That can totally change the meaning of the post!
Found an open issue on GitHub:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15311
(Totally separate from the quote-toot debate.)
If I follow someone on WordPress or GoToSocial or Calckey etc. and they include an indented quote, when it shows up in Mastodon, it'll look like the quote is just another paragraph.
That can totally change the meaning of the post!
Found an open issue on GitHub:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15311
HTML sanitizer can change meaning of posts entirely · Issue #15311 · mastodon/mastodon
A private post in my home feed apparently contained a blockquote, which was stripped by the sanitizer and converted to a regular paragraph. This changed the meaning of the post entirely, since it w...GitHub
