No worries! There’s definitely some things about Markdown syntax that can be counterintuitive, especially since every site that uses it seems to use a slightly different flavor. If you hit the ? icon (rightmost icon above the comment box) it links to an (incomplete) guide to the Markdown used on Lemmy as well as an interactive tutorial, if that’s of interest. Our own WhyEssEff also did a more comprehensive rundown of our particular Markdown features in this post.
More to the point: in my comment, I achieved the line breaks by putting two spaces at the end of each line. The simpler way is to just hit [Enter] twice after each line (as you saw, just hitting it once doesn’t actually affect how the post looks). I tend to use the two-space method for lists without bullets/numbers because it’s a little more compact, but they’ll all get the job done:
Not sure if all of these are shibboleths but they’re definitely things I’ve heard leftists say
Edit: Thank you Aernalingus
Revisionist
Paper tiger
Contradictions
Weeks where decades happenvv Cool zone
Treats
Workplace democracy
Praxis
Theory
Solidarity
Harm reduction
Dialectical materialism
Cadre
Enlightened centrism
Organize, educate, agitate
Atomization
Collective
Manufactured consent
I can feel the book leftover to read, while I read this all.
Same thing with linebreaks (you can click the little page icon under my comment and copy-paste the source back into your comment):
Revisionist
Paper tiger
Contradictions
Weeks where decades happenvv Cool zone
Treats
Workplace democracy
Praxis
Theory
Solidarity
Harm reduction
Dialectical materialism
Cadre
Enlightened centrism
Organize, educate, agitate
Atomization
Collective
Manufactured consent
Thank you!! I feel like a gotdang boomer on this website
No worries! There’s definitely some things about Markdown syntax that can be counterintuitive, especially since every site that uses it seems to use a slightly different flavor. If you hit the ? icon (rightmost icon above the comment box) it links to an (incomplete) guide to the Markdown used on Lemmy as well as an interactive tutorial, if that’s of interest. Our own WhyEssEff also did a more comprehensive rundown of our particular Markdown features in this post.
More to the point: in my comment, I achieved the line breaks by putting two spaces at the end of each line. The simpler way is to just hit [Enter] twice after each line (as you saw, just hitting it once doesn’t actually affect how the post looks). I tend to use the two-space method for lists without bullets/numbers because it’s a little more compact, but they’ll all get the job done:
Two spaces 1
Two spaces 2
Two spaces 3
Enter twice 1
Enter twice 2
Enter twice 3
running dog is a good one
i have a bad habit of skipping lines when i skim so i only read the 2nd line of your comment and thought it was AI slop