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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)

submitted 1 month ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 46 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

Yeah, maybe that's not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And another great thing about Markdown: if the system doesn't "support" it, it's still totally readable. The formatting doesn't get in the way of readability.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While true, doesn't have anything to do with my comment?

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

"LOL", I guess?

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