gotosocial/docs/user_guide/writing_posts.md

Writing Posts

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Formatting

This section describes the different post input types accepted by GoToSocial, and the method GtS uses to parse text into HTML.

Links

Any recognized links in the text will be shortened and turned into proper hyperlinks. For example:

Here's a link to something: https://example.org/some/link/address

will become:

Here's a link to something: example.org/some/link/address

Mentions

You can 'mention' another account by referring to the account in the following way:

@some_account@example.org

In this example, some_account is the username of the account you want to mention, and example.org is the domain that hosts their account.

The mentioned account will get a notification that you've mentioned them, and be able to see the post in which they were mentioned.

Mentions are formatted in a similar way to links, so:

@some_account@example.org

will become:

@some_account

Input Types

GoToSocial currently accepts two different types of input. These are:

• plain
• markdown

Plain is the default method of posting: GtS accepts some plain looking text, and converts it into some nice HTML by parsing links and mentions etc.

Markdown is a more complex way of organizing text, which gives you more control over how your text is parsed and formatted.

For more information on markdown, see The Markdown Guide.