Built-in support for the ‘Web of Markdown’? 0 ▲ Writing Slowly 2 hours ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments A Feature Request: Support for Static .md Outputs & Discovery Motivation: A Simpler, Less Exploitative Web I’ve been interested in a simpler, less exploitative web for a long time. It feels like the modern web is increasingly dominated by ads, intrusive surveillance, tracking scripts, and bloated layouts that mock our control over our own reading decisions. I’ve explored simpler alternative networks like Gopher and the Gemini protocol to find a quieter reading experience. But separate protocols don’t fit smoothly into my existing publishing workflow. They require running parallel infrastructure, managing new server software, and creating extra publishing overhead. At the same time, recent developments in AI have rapidly turned Markdown into the default lingua franca of the web. Micro.blog users already author their posts in native Markdown, as does everyone using a static site, so converting that source into HTML only to have tools and readers parse it back into text feels a bit… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.