I’ve actually got 2 questions, one about l.w and one about lemmy in general.

  1. I signed up yesterday and got an email to confirm my address but it’s not working. I’ve used the user I created, my email, and the user that was in my email and it’s not working. is it me or is it the server here at issue?

  2. I’ve also got a mastodon account. how do I create a post on any sub straight from there and not through a lemmy instance?

  • @FeathercrownEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    You need to double-enter (for some reason). Right now it looks like this:

    • @[email protected]
      5•10 months ago
      One single newline
Leads to no line break at all

Double space before the newline  
Should yield a line break

Double newline 

Leads to paragraph break

      One single newline Leads to no line break at all

      Double space before the newline
      Should yield a line break

      Double newline

      Leads to paragraph break

      • @FeathercrownEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        Double space before the newline should yield a line break

        Why is it like this 😭

        • @[email protected]
          3•10 months ago

          It’s in the holy text: the markdown standard.

          Ninja edit: the reason is because a single line break should have no formatting effect so that markdown files can be opened and show up better in terminal editors like vim or emacs. It’s good to be able to break a line when it gets too long in editors which don’t use page formatting to handle line wrapping (ie. like MS Word does). So you need something other than a single newline character to represent a rendered paragraph break.

          • @FeathercrownEnglish
            2•10 months ago

            Oh that’s why! Makes sense, thanks :)

            Also ninja edits don’t work on lemmy