diff --git a/lib/pleroma/formatter.ex b/lib/pleroma/formatter.ex
index 61906dda6..1be12055f 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/formatter.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/formatter.ex
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ def mentions_escape(text, options \\ []) do
     end
   end
 
+  def markdown_to_html(text) do
+    Earmark.as_html!(text)
+  end
+
   def html_escape({text, mentions, hashtags}, type) do
     {html_escape(text, type), mentions, hashtags}
   end
diff --git a/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/object_validators/audio_video_validator.ex b/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/object_validators/audio_video_validator.ex
index eaf94797a..9b38aa4c2 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/object_validators/audio_video_validator.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/object_validators/audio_video_validator.ex
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ defp fix_content(%{"mediaType" => "text/markdown", "content" => content} = data)
        when is_binary(content) do
     content =
       content
-      |> Earmark.as_html!()
+      |> Pleroma.Formatter.markdown_to_html()
       |> Pleroma.HTML.filter_tags()
 
     Map.put(data, "content", content)
diff --git a/lib/pleroma/web/common_api/utils.ex b/lib/pleroma/web/common_api/utils.ex
index b434a069e..be86009af 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/web/common_api/utils.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/web/common_api/utils.ex
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ def format_input(text, "text/html", options) do
   def format_input(text, "text/markdown", options) do
     text
     |> Formatter.mentions_escape(options)
-    |> Earmark.as_html!()
+    |> Formatter.markdown_to_html()
     |> Formatter.linkify(options)
     |> Formatter.minify("text/html")
     |> Formatter.html_escape("text/html")
diff --git a/priv/scrubbers/default.ex b/priv/scrubbers/default.ex
index 0893b17e5..4694a92a5 100644
--- a/priv/scrubbers/default.ex
+++ b/priv/scrubbers/default.ex
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ defmodule Pleroma.HTML.Scrubber.Default do
   Meta.allow_tag_with_this_attribute_values(:span, "class", ["h-card"])
   Meta.allow_tag_with_these_attributes(:span, [])
 
+  Meta.allow_tag_with_this_attribute_values(:code, "class", ["inline"])
+
   @allow_inline_images Pleroma.Config.get([:markup, :allow_inline_images])
 
   if @allow_inline_images do
diff --git a/test/pleroma/web/common_api/utils_test.exs b/test/pleroma/web/common_api/utils_test.exs
index c6abbbe84..ab6392b1f 100644
--- a/test/pleroma/web/common_api/utils_test.exs
+++ b/test/pleroma/web/common_api/utils_test.exs
@@ -178,13 +178,13 @@ test "Paragraph" do
     test "raw HTML" do
       code = ~s[<a href="http://example.org/">OwO</a><!-- what's this?-->]
       {result, [], []} = Utils.format_input(code, "text/markdown")
-      assert result == "<p>#{code}</p>"
+      assert result == ~s[<a href="http://example.org/">OwO</a>]
     end
 
     test "rulers" do
       code = ~s[before\n\n-----\n\nafter]
       {result, [], []} = Utils.format_input(code, "text/markdown")
-      assert result == "<p>before</p><hr /><p>after</p>"
+      assert result == "<p>before</p><hr/><p>after</p>"
     end
 
     test "blockquote" do
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ test "code" do
 
       code = ~s[```\nputs "Hello World"\n```]
       {result, [], []} = Utils.format_input(code, "text/markdown")
-      assert result == ~s[<pre><code class="">puts &quot;Hello World&quot;</code></pre>]
+      assert result == ~s[<pre><code>puts &quot;Hello World&quot;</code></pre>]
     end
 
     test "lists" do
@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ test "delegated renderers" do
       assert result == ~s[<p><strong>aaaa~</strong></p>]
 
       # strikethrough
-      code = ~s[<del>aaaa~</del>]
+      code = ~s[~~aaaa~~~]
       {result, [], []} = Utils.format_input(code, "text/markdown")
-      assert result == ~s[<p><del>aaaa~</del></p>]
+      assert result == ~s[<p><del>aaaa</del>~</p>]
     end
   end
 
diff --git a/test/pleroma/web/common_api_test.exs b/test/pleroma/web/common_api_test.exs
index 585b2c174..c1b1af073 100644
--- a/test/pleroma/web/common_api_test.exs
+++ b/test/pleroma/web/common_api_test.exs
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ test "it filters out obviously bad tags when accepting a post as Markdown" do
 
       object = Object.normalize(activity)
 
-      assert object.data["content"] == "<p><b>2hu</b></p>alert(&#39;xss&#39;)"
+      assert object.data["content"] == "<p><b>2hu</b></p>"
       assert object.data["source"] == post
     end