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on Communist Bear Site they automatically censor out your punctuation marks in order to make your writing conform to a worse standard, calling double spaces a bourgeois decadent waste of space.
If this is a bit; hilarious. If its a sincere post, then I'm sorry OP you're a relic of a time that no longer exists. Double spacing is excellent for improving readability on monospaced fonts e.g. from typewriters or in terminal windows.
This is a sentence separated by 2 spaces.As can be seen it clearly de-marks the gap much wider than the gap between characters that occurs in monospace fonts. This helps readability.This is a sentence separated by 1 space. It is a little harder to see the period space in a monospace due to many characters having a gap between them.But this isn't a relevant property in modern fonts that have different layout dependent not just on the character width (5 l's take less space than 5 m's; lllll mmmmm) but also the gaps are consistent between characters depending on the preceding and following characters, by allowing overlap in spaces by clever kerning e.g. between the Y and the o of You, note how the o sits under the arms of the Y. This means the gaps between characters on modern fonts are consistent, and the single space is clear to see for legibility. Trying to force widen the gap on a period using double spaces with modern kerning is not better for legibility and can in some instances make it worse for readability and cause other technical issues.