Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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What do you mean?
Here's a screenshot showing what the post looks like for a Lemmy user.
What's with the title? It's just a tag and a URL. Tags do nothing on Lemmy and look awful. URLs in titles also do nothing and look awful. And what's with the a escaped #-character? Is it to safely pass the title in bash-scripts?
The article link is broken. And the multiple levels of crossposting just seems kind of.... lazy.
This is some next generation RE: FW: FW stuff.
It seems like there is a problem with whatever Lemmy UI you're using. The post is formatted fine in the default Lemmy UI with the hashtags showing as normal hyperlinks:
I'm aware that hashtags don't have a function in Lemmy, but the post is originally from Mastodon. Furthermore, in spoken English sometimes people will add "hashtag" as a prefix to words and phrases for emphasis. That said, @[email protected] et al should definitely add hashtag functionality to Lemmy. It could be useful for post flair, for example, besides compatibility with the rest of the fediverse.
Sorry if you don't like cross posting. I think it's a nice feature that helps more people see posts and find communities. It also helps me interact with commenters when I make a post originally to Pixelfed or Mastodon.
Seems like it's not showing up correctly when federating to other instances. Or maybe a version issue.
https://lemmy.world/post/15003199
Interesting. Lemmy.world is running 0.19.3, but my instance is still stuck on 0.18.2. I wonder why Lemmy would have lost ability to format hashtags in titles nicely.
I created a bug report: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2448
Partially agreement. There shouldn't be markdown in titles and Lemmy should probably have stripped it altogether: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3828
Disregarding the malplaced markup in the title, the article link is also broken. (Contains broken markup).
And again the multiple indentations and "cross-posted from" makes it look like Re: Re: FW material. I think my criticism is valid, even if I probably did sound a bit like a dick about it.