I can't wait until we get bots that repeat catchphrases or tell you when your post contains all the letters of the alphabet! That was the best part of reddit!

[–] webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I have a thing on my phone that lets me do a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and for some reason lt loses an arm on Lemmy. Made me so sad to realize no bot is gonna answer that.

[–] maf@szmer.info 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In programming backslash can sometimes be used to enter special characters. Maybe Lemmy also follows this syntax? If so, typing two consecutive backslashes might help.

Test with one backslash:
Test with two backslashes: \

[–] diablexical@vlemmy.net 8 points 2 years ago

Isn’t that just markdown? Eg wrapping with a star/asterisk italicizes. If you want to escape that you backslash.

test in italics, made by wrapping with asterisks

* = a backslash escaped asterisk

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