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Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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[–] echindod 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh. Good one. Markdown everywhere. Slack always pissed me off for it's sub par markdown support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is an option in the settings to use markdown formatting. I haven't tried it but I guess it at least makes formatting less annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It's a (small, shitty) subset of markdown. Slack formatting just kind of sucks.