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?

  • @[email protected]
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    58 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

    • @Feathercrown
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      18 months ago

      Double space before the newline should yield a line break

      Why is it like this 😭

      • @[email protected]
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        8 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.

        • @Feathercrown
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          28 months ago

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

          Also ninja edits don’t work on lemmy