#Mastodon should just let people post in markdown so people can stop using these stupid bold/italics unicode characters.
I can only imagine these are still terrible for screen readers (unless accessibility tools have finally gotten wise to this usage of unicode on social media idk)
Jonah Aragon
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2026-09-19 03:03:21 UTC
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