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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That may be a lemmy specific way to markdown

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s not Lemmy specific

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
      www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#italic

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    • filcuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Markdown has a core spec and then endless flavours. I assume what they’re saying Lemmy chose to not use underscore markup.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        This used to be a trouble back in the reddit days as well. It depends entirely on what platform you’re using to access the content.

        Boost for example does seem to allow underscores however when I check via the web it doesn’t work.

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• poolcritter@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Underscores do not work inside a word (so my_long_identifier won’t accidentally become mylongidentifier, but _foo_ will become foo)

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