It’s the other way round: I don’t know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that’s supposed to mean. We’ve been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it’s supposed to mean. Back in those days we’d also type :'-( instead of 😢.
It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:
*foo* should be bold, not italic
/foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
_foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that’s just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.
TBF I don’t want you to make text bold or underlined on my screen. You gotta work for it if you mean it, and it’s still likely that I will collapse your comment on sight and move on. Deal with it.
It’s the other way round: I don’t know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that’s supposed to mean. We’ve been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it’s supposed to mean. Back in those days we’d also type :'-( instead of 😢.
It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:
*foo* should be bold, not italic
/foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
_foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that’s just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.
Why? :'-(
Confusion with web links? Honestly spittballin’ here
I still do! Fuck the pictures!
Unless it’s 🤮
That one really just gets the point across really well lol
💀
¯\_(ツ)_¯
I see what you did there.
Just incase, take this: /
Thanks! /¯\_(ツ)_¯
TBF I don’t want you to make text bold or underlined on my screen. You gotta work for it if you mean it, and it’s still likely that I will collapse your comment on sight and move on. Deal with it.
Underline used to be manual proofreader markup for something that was supposed to be italicized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proofreader's_marks
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