Comment on Follow libreddit with lemmy client

LemUrun@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hi! This is just a friendly reminder letting you know that you should type the shrug emote with two backslashes to format it correctly:

  Enter this - ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

  And it appears like this - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    you can use codeblocks to show it how it is by the way

    like this ¯\\_(ツ)\_/¯

    That shows the exact code you typed without applying any formatting to it whatsoever.

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  • LemUrun@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fuck you, I’ve been on Reddit long enough. Why the hell this is still a thing on Lemmy? Can’t you fix it or something?

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    • infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s not a reddit or lemmy thing, generally backslash is used as an escape character in a lot of programming languages. Here and in reddit comments accept markdown and markdown uses backslash as escape character. You need an escape character for example to write a backtick in a codeblock: ```

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    • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s a markdown issue due to how markdown styling works. It would be nice if we had a fancy editor like Reddit does since MD can be fussy in some circumstances, especially trying to make blank lines.

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• Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Accidentally deleted my original comment, so rewrote it; not sure why other people copied it verbatim.

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  • infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There is some delay in federation, so it’s possible that some users saw both of your comments. I remember once got upvotes on a comment I deleted instantly.

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