maybe instead of doing a discord‐style ||spoiler|| i should just do a custom elements‐style <spoiler-text> as that would at least make stripping internal markup easier (and also be easier to support in html)
like it kinda sucks that your ||very important spoiler you *don’t* want people to see|| doesn’t actually get spoilered because you accidentally put an <em> tag in there
that’s unintuitive, but also i have no easy way of federating that <em> tag and it’s way easier to just only process text nodes
it’s a bit of a problem how to handle spoiler tags which contain markup; right now i’m just Not Supporting Them. a Better solution would probably be to strip the markup but that is computationally much more difficult
it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users
expect this to be spelled out in more detail later, but genuine #FediTips for #NewHere users:
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these people get the boot. if we want to read what they have to say, we can always create an account somewhere else. they don’t get to read us.
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