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I was percolating on this. And here’s a maybe-nasty workaround that may even be usable in federated manner (I have no idea if this is even viable, need to learn some AP)
Internally store posts in raw and some kind of decorated-raw format, where the “decorator” is essentially some frontmatter that specifies rendering/renderer properties. Think
<!-- renderbits: […..] -->\n\npostgoeshere
Upside of this approach is that if it is federable (and again, dunno, will need to check still 😅), it can allow each instance to self-handle as needed, along with providing own fallbacks and stylemaps
not a bad idea! there might be an existing format that’d handle this well. I need to confirm what format Lemmy uses for styled text interchange — I think it might just be markdown?
looks like both markdown/source, and html? this and this is what I drilled down to