Lemmy uses Markdown for formatting, like bold, italic, ~~strikethrough~~, code and lots of other stuff.
One quirk is that you need to append two spaces after a line to get a line break or use two newlines for new paragraphs.
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Hold on, lemme test it.
Hopefully, this sentence is a newline.
Edit: it worked! thanks!
This is a Markdown thing, which is what Lemmy uses for its comments.
You can see what's supported in the Lemmy docs for Markdown.
Something I didn't notice in the docs is a trick that markdown allows:
Adding two spaces at the end of the line lets you make a new line instead of a new paragraph.
Dunno who came up with that, but it generally works wherever Markdown is accepted.



