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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LemUrun@pawb.social 2 months agoFuck 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?
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 months ago
infeeeee@lemm.ee 2 months 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: ```