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• pogodem0n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nope, no chance.

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• Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, they use the WYSIWYG editor it has.

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  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They did not nest properly on boost. But I guess that’s not surprising, we only just recently got them at all

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It works fine on the lemmy-ui, I’d say you should raise an issue.

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• squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No

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  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe?

    Nah

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• steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, the average person struggles with WYSIWYG editors

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• Littux@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate it when someone dumps their log file without using a code block. Even seen some Arch Linux users do it, which is, unsurprising really.

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• JoseALerma@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The issue for a long time was that there is no markdown standard, so everyone had their own version of it.

  CommonMark is gaining ground, so hopefully markdown will be the same everywhere soon

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  • Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    obligatory xcd

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• SpicyTaint@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think less than 50% of people with access to technology are tech literate enough to know what markdown is. I don’t think age really applies here so much as interest in technology.

  Just because I drive a car doesn’t mean I know or care about how it works. It’s just a tool.

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  • kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re a towel.

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    • SpicyTaint@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …could you please elaborate?

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you telling me you can’t identify some of the common symptoms of a failing alternator!? Pshhhh…

    :P

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• scheep@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would guess they know a bit about lists using “-“ and a few people might know about using asterisk to bold stuff, but other than that probably not.

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, no, maybe.

  I don’t know.

  Can you repeat the question?
  

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nope. Most tech people don’t know what markdown is.

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• BlindFrog@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most people are probably at least aware that there are contexts where you can use some basic, intuitive ASCII-based formatting (like asterisks for bullets) and it will get cleaned up to a prettier format when you post it.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    xkcd.com/2501/

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• kaeurenne@kadaikupi.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I only know some characters

  like this one

  Like this one

  Does anyone know the best markdown-learning platform?

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I don’t know about “best,” as that probably varies per individual, but I always recommend reading at:

    www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/

    and if you want to experiment in private, there are lots of live editors; locally I recommend Obsidian. If you don’t want to install anything, there are also in-browser options such as:

    markdownlivepreview.com

    (I have not used this and so cannot comment on its quality, but at a glance it looks good)

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And quartz, of course.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not Markdown as a whole, but I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold. Some also know how to cross the text. Not much more for a normie, though.

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  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold

    I wouldn’t guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the “normie” world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they’re not just pressing the icon in the gui.

    Hell, most of them look at me like I’m a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.

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    • ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m a normie, I’m tech literate adjacent-adjacent, by which I mean I’m here on lemmy rather than Facebook, but no. Me and my peers are not pressing ctrl anything. I don’t even know what gui means. Something user interface? I’m not proud to be this dumb, but I’m pretty sure most “regular” people are in this boat with me. I was the third most tech literate person in my entire office last year with a bunch of millennials simply because I was willing to Google things.

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  • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mean ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶? Yeah. It can be done without markdown.

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those are usually broken on screen readers.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that exactly. Not a native speaker, huh

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Elder Millennial here. All I know about markdown is:

  1. To make a hard copy of a thought or conversation. “Mark that down in your notes, so we don’t forget.”

  2. A discount or sale. “Did you see the 30% markdown on three legged jeans?”

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  • riot@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Any Elder Millennial born after 1979 can’t Markdown, all they know is jot that down, 30% off on jeans, nostalgia for blockbuster, eat hot chip and buy avocado toast

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And yet you just used it! Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like:

    1. Numbering your items
    2. will automatically format them
    3. into ordered lists

    • and if you use - it’s an unordered list

    • same with asterisk

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    • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s all perfectly[^1] intuituve.

      [^1]: for certain definitions of perfect.

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    • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like

      And then other parts of it are just infuriating. Like how if you try to post song lyrics or something, the markdown just mashes every sentence together in one line for some reason. So you have to know the secret code just to make gdamn new lines. I actually pressed enter to go to a new line 5 times in this paragraph but it comes out all jumbled together after posting.

      As far as I’m concerned, I shouldn’t need to know some special formatting just for return to work properly.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Still don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    30% markdown on three legged jeans? Damn, that’s almost one whole leg for free!

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• JASN_DE@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No.

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• executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, and they don’t want to

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No

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• SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  **NO**

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  .llɐ ʎɐ ʇou

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• chigityk@lemmy.chigityk.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m gonna go with no. I don’t think enough platforms use it natively.

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  • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    WhatsApp good enough?

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    • Littux@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does WhatsApp actually use markdown? The implementation is awful then.

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• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They do not imho

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know enough to get by, but the thing is the syntax isn’t always the same between platforms.

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  • Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I fucking clicked it. I don’t know what i was expecting.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      XcQ, link stays blue.

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    • Littux@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Voyager for Lemmy showing “Never gonna give you up” thumbnail alongside the link

      Voyager saved me

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looks like Lemmy formats empty hyperlinks as loops back here.

    Depends on the app, and maybe also the instance you’re using?

    In eternity for lemmy it shows as a link to https://reddit.com/if I long press it, but has an invalid link error if I try to click it.

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ~hehe~

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• TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Another millenial here. I’ve known about markdown forever, but I also LIVED online as a teenager.

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My opinion

  spoiler

  * I don’t know for sure * My opinion doesn’t matter at all But I think, they know Markdown only, if they are involved in Reddit, Wikipedia, Obsidian/Silverbullet self-hosting or were Skype victims heavy-users.

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  • jinx@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    • don’t forget Discord victims users

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• macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  *Gen Y

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