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.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 days ago

    Depending where you use it, but often tables are available in markdown.

    markdown table
    x y
     |markdown|table|
     |--|---|
     |x|y|
    

    Fixed…cos you could only see rendered and not code.

    • @echindod
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      1312 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

    • @tyler
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      612 days ago

      Markdown tables are terrible though. Try and put a code block in there. Adoc tables are amazing on the other hand, but much more verbose to write.

    • @spartanatreyu
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      I fixed it for you (markdown tables support padding to make them easy to read):

      markdown table
      x y
      |markdown|table|
      |--------|-----|
      |x       |y    |