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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?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Consider putting the mention at the end as the first line of your post will become the post title. So

Lorem ipsum
Text text text
@lorem@ipsum

On Mastodon will give you a lemmy post that looks like

Title:

Lorem ipsum

Body:

Text text text
@lorem@ipsum

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You need to add line breaks to your example here. Otherwise you are giving some very bad advice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Double space before the newline should yield a line break

Why is it like this 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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

~~Also ninja edits don't work on lemmy~~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh weird. I thought it'd be fine since I quoted it.