I don’t buy jan6’s premise that twts with markdown and image links is hard to read. Markdown came out of how people simulated typeset text in plain text and the URL part of links to images and others resources are also easy for humans to read and parse.

Multi-line is another matter, but I also never used the original client. I guess it could have been implemented in a was that would not break other clients. Using something like -- or just two space at the end of a line like in markdown would also work.

Yeah the argument is pretty flawed when authors can pretty much write whatever content they like including gibberish, XML, HTML or even Binary 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net Also considering the original tagline of twtxt:

twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.

if a hacker can’t handle some markdown and urls in their microblogging, then user != hacker