🧵 … did you know: your #Mastodon may allow markdown? <-- see what I did there?
▪ in settings: set text editing to Markdown (you can always change it per-post, too)
▪ Put an asterisk in front of a word for italic, and put another one after a word to end the italic string. NO space between asterisk & word!
▪ two * = bold
▪ three * = bold and italic
▪ two ~ for strikout, etc.
Be sure to check your first posts, in case you did something unexpected. Ex: 'dash+space' =