maple classic™ 
mastodon please please please replace newlines in toots with more than just absolutely nothing when rendering to notifications and preview cards
like even just a space will do if you absolutely cannot use a newline (i know for a fact preview cards can use newlines just fine but i am *sure* someone very smart at the mastodon dev team had a *very good* reason not to)
@squirrel do you know why it does that? It must have something to do with the way it strips formatting...? Except there is no format-- OH I bet it's because every paragraph is a separate span element
as opposed to, say, a p element
Now how would you fix that... 🤔 put whitespace after each span I guess?
@InspectorCaracal if you tell beautifulsoup4 on python to get the text from a toot its default behaviour is literally to put \n after each tag so that already does this
now if only ruby gems were any good as this python package
hey let me know if this looks reasonable to youlike, separating sentences that should have newlines between themwith absolutely no space between them?i don't think it's very readabledo you?