• @[email protected]
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    371 year ago

    I can’t wait until we get bots that repeat catchphrases or tell you when your post contains all the letters of the alphabet! That was the best part of reddit!

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      On principle, I am downvoting any typical bot-response comments. Don’t do that here, not even “ironically”.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      I have a thing on my phone that lets me do a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and for some reason lt loses an arm on Lemmy. Made me so sad to realize no bot is gonna answer that.

      • 𝖒𝖆𝖋
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        151 year ago

        In programming backslash can sometimes be used to enter special characters. Maybe Lemmy also follows this syntax? If so, typing two consecutive backslashes might help.

        Test with one backslash:
        Test with two backslashes: \

        • @[email protected]
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          111 year ago

          Isn’t that just markdown? Eg wrapping with a star/asterisk italicizes. If you want to escape that you backslash.

          test in italics, made by wrapping with asterisks

          * = a backslash escaped asterisk

      • allmaechd
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        121 year ago

        Here: \ you lost this.

        This was written by a 🤖 please don’t reply to this email

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      • @rooster_butt
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        1 year ago

        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        You need 3 backslashes:

        ¯\\\_(ツ)_

        Backslashes are escape characters:

        Zero would convert it underscore italics

        ¯ _(ツ)_

        ¯ (ツ)

        apparently the ¯ cancels the italics on it’s own so I had to add a space to demonstrate…

        One cancels the underscore _italics_

        ¯\_(ツ)_

        ¯_(ツ)_/¯

        Two just cancels the escape to the underscore \italics

        ¯\\_(ツ)_

        ¯\(ツ)

        Three, finally cancels the escape to the escape to the underscore \_italics_

        ¯\\\_(ツ)_

        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Evelyn
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      71 year ago

      I’ve now seen both sides, I just saw people on another thread complaining about how much they hated those bots and how glad they are that the bots are gone LOL

      I personally am indifferent on them other than the remindme bot, that one was useful.

    • netburnr
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      71 year ago

      I miss stabbot, it was the best bot on Reddit.

      • Rhaedas
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        31 year ago

        Half the fun of lotrmemes was the memes, the other half was the bots talking to each other. Some were predictable, but some were so well timed it was uncanny.