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When to use Friendica over Mastodon (homehack.nl)
submitted 2 years ago by serenity@jeremmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 0 points 2 years ago (12 children)

@serenity@jeremmy.ml wrote:

* No option for a content warning in a post you’re creating. This option is heavily used in Mastodon e.g to warn people for a post about a sensitive topic e.g politics. Friendica does respect content warnings from Mastodon though.
* No option to add a text to an image. Mastodon has this option to include visually impaired people.
* No option to blur an image. In Mastodon this is a feature similar to a content warning for a text.

Have you tried BBCodes? while in your node press on your profile name in the top-right corner of your screen (if you're using the Frio theme) > Help > BBCode tag reference to see what you can do. They can do everything you said.

[–] Samlane86@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Thanks for the info about BBCode. I didn’t know about this option before. However I can’t figure out how to implement some of it. I was testing out alt text and am pretty sure I was formatting the BBCode properly. Once I created the post, it would display the image but I could never figure out how to view the alt text. Do you know how to implement it?

[–] goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org 3 points 2 years ago

@Samlane86 @petrescatraian You can add a mastodon content warning with the abstract code.

For alt text, put it between the img and the /img text.

[–] eshep@social.trom.tf 2 points 2 years ago

@petrescatraian @Samlane86 Did you have a go at the spoiler tag?
[spoiler=Reveal Text]spoiled text[/spoiler]

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@Samlane86 Guess it shows up when the image does not load properly. Or when you hover your cursor over the image. Usually if you type should work just fine. That's what I do at least.

Edit: here's an example (edit2: there is an image below, but it is only visible on Friendica; maybe because it is on a different server):

Also use the preview pane/button before posting a comment, so you can make adjustments if something goes wrong. In my experience, lists do not work properly unless you use * to make lists, as Friendica does support markdown as well. However, it turns markdown into bbcode, so if I have to edit a comment with a list, I have to switch back to Markdown formatting there.

[–] Samlane86@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Correction: I just tried again and viewed the post on Mastodon. The alt text does appear there, so the code does work. Just not when viewed on Friendica. Am I just looking in the wrong places? Or does it just not display natively?

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