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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        9 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

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            9 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.