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Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it, what double spacing?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The double spaces between sentences. Tbh, it is kinda nice for readability.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you were taught on a typewriter, you double space for life. It's impossible to stop once ingrained.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I was taught by people who were taught on typewriters, and it's still ingrained.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

OK that doesn't show here (Firefox on Linux), I actually copied the text into an editor, and searched for double spaces, and none were found.
Tried another Browser Falkon which uses QtWebEngine, and there are no doublespaces there either.
So apparently some browsers render Lemmy posts differently.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Browsers collapse whitespace unless told not to by the webpage CSS. I'm not using a browser though, I'm using Boost for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ah that explains it. 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Boost for Lemmy" I learned a thing existed today, that I was unaware of yesterday. Thank you for that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I am happy to have accidentally helped someone. 😁 Take care!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I really wish it would come back in style. I hate the single space after a full stop, it feels inadequate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I thought Markdown basically just ignored all extra whitespace

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

HTML in browsers ignores the whitespace, I think, not markdown specifically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Plus, Markdown is more like guidelines than a standard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is the thing, yes. I'm using an app to browse Lemmy.