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The solution here is not to tell people not to write this way, it's to tell platforms to do better about giving people formatting options for their text No one
by bluefirebrand 2y ago
The solution here is not to tell people not to write this way, it's to tell platforms to do better about giving people formatting options for their text
No one would be doing fake bold or italics if people could actually just put in real bold and italics
- Zak 2y agoBoth things can be good ideas at the same time. It's likely the case that large corporate social media platforms have thought about what formatting options they want to provide and have decided that they will make more money if they keep it as it is. Attempts to get them to change that aren't somehow connected to their profits are unlikely to succeed. It's possible to convince people to change their behavior by appealing to empathy, sympathy, or a sense of justice.
- michaelt 2y agoThe current behaviour is: no native bold or italic, but weird Unicode bold and italic if you know the weird trick. To me this seems unintended, rather than some thoughtful, considered optimum.
- Zak 2y agoI imagine it has to do with not wanting to add anything to the UI, though it wouldn't be hard to support Markdown with no visible UI.
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