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
