What do you like about Lemmy? What could be improved? (sh.itjust.works)

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I like that when someone creates a community, It usually just becomes a diary for them being able to post what they wanna see, I think we could all be nicer to each other in these trying times

Edit: damn y'all, don't just say the bad thing you gotta say a good thing too

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wish that Lemmy's Markdown variant didn't convert "(c)" to "(c)" ("©" if it doesn't show up on PieFed or some other piece of software).

I not-infrequently want to make lists where I am using "(a)", "(b)" and "(c)". It's also frequently used in US laws, which I will sometimes copy-paste. I never, ever see people needing to use the copyright symbol. If someone wants to write "copyright", they can write it out or go to the trouble of using Unicode on their client.

I do like the fact that Lemmy's Markdown dropped Reddit's auto-renumbering of numbered lists, which I think was a huge mistake for Reddit to do. Neat idea, but in practice, people would copy-paste items out of numbered lists elsewhere and want to retain the actual item and then Reddit would go renumber it.

EDIT: I checked. Apparently it doesn't show up on PieFed, which makes me like it even less, since that means that Lemmy and PieFed (and maybe Mbin) users don't get the same view of "(c)".

[-] Pamasich@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

Can confirm that I see "(c)" on Mbin.

Edit: To explain, I think that's because Mbin uses the source field of the federated post, which contains the comment as you've written it, not as Lemmy renders it. Mbin then parses and transforms it to HTML by its own rules, not Lemmy's. So the (c) doesn't get transformed, because Mbin doesn't do that.

I assume it's the same logic for Piefed.

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

seems to show without conversion on both mlmym and voyager, so i guess it really is a lemmy issue.. maybe worth raising as a feature request

(mlmym https://old.lemmy.today/post/51265348 )

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