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Why are there two of them
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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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I always enjoy seeing the double asterisk in places where that formatting doesn't work. It's like ahh I know you type elsewhere often enough that it has become part of your "style" of writing lol
It's the other way round: I don't know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that's supposed to mean. We've been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it's supposed to mean. Back in those days we'd also type :'-( instead of 😢.
It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:
*foo* should be bold, not italic
/foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
_foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that's just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.
Why? :'-(
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I see what you did there.
Just incase, take this: /
Thanks! /¯\_(ツ)_¯
I still do! Fuck the pictures!
Unless it's 🤮
That one really just gets the point across really well lol
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Underline used to be manual proofreader markup for something that was supposed to be italicized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proofreader%27s_marks
hear hear
TBF I don't want you to make text bold or underlined on my screen. You gotta work for it if you mean it, and it's still likely that I will collapse your comment on sight and move on. Deal with it.
Confusion with web links? Honestly spittballin' here
The double asterisk was part of the netiquette era of internet. As well as underscores and all caps.
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