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.

  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
    27·
    4 months 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
      13·
      4 months ago

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

      • lud@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • tleb@lemmy.ca
          4·
          4 months ago

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

    • tyler
      6·
      4 months 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
      6·
      4 months ago

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

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