Wondering if your typical/average/normie person (millennials and younger) know it or know about it. It’s enabled on reddit and discord?
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I’m gonna go with no. I don’t think enough platforms use it natively.
WhatsApp good enough?
Does WhatsApp actually use markdown? The implementation is awful then.
Probably doesn’t follow the spec very closely.
It doesn’t require you to put a double space in the end off a line to get to the next. This is similar to a lot of other implementations you see on web pages.
But it does at least follow through with single level ordered and unordered lists (bullets and numbering) and even automatically adds a bullet when you press Shift+Enter
Also, single line code and code blocks, work.
Then there is the usual italics and bold and even a quote block.It also converts most of them while you type, instead of you having to wait until sending it, which is better than UIs that don’t even have a preview button. I like Preview buttons.
Most people are probably at least aware that there are contexts where you can use some basic, intuitive ASCII-based formatting (like asterisks for bullets) and it will get cleaned up to a prettier format when you post it.
They may not know the name of the format or all the available features.
No.
And quartz, of course.
Of course.
No
Another millenial here. I’ve known about markdown forever, but I also LIVED online as a teenager. I suspect most people I know would think similarly to the other commenter if asked.
No
Maybe?
Nah
**NO**
I know enough to get by, but the thing is the syntax isn’t always the same between platforms. Sometimes I make an Empty Hyperlink just to have colorful text and people ask me “Woah how’d you do that?” and I explain it to them but I can’t always show them without it auto formatting so they just never figure it out lol.
Looks like Lemmy formats empty hyperlinks as loops back here.
Looks like Lemmy formats empty hyperlinks as loops back here.
Depends on the app, and maybe also the instance you’re using?
In eternity for lemmy it shows as a link to
https://www.reddit.com/if I long press it, but has aninvalid linkerror if I try to click it.I fucking clicked it. I don’t know what i was expecting.
Voyager saved me
Nope, no chance.
I think less than 50% of people with access to technology are tech literate enough to know what markdown is. I don’t think age really applies here so much as interest in technology.
Just because I drive a car doesn’t mean I know or care about how it works. It’s just a tool.
You’re a towel.
…could you please elaborate?
Dumb joke that’s from South Park. There’s a towel, and any time someone calls him a towel, he retorts with, “you’re a towel”.
I need to watch more South park. 😂
I would even say less than 5%
Lol, yeah. I’m probably being too optimistic.
Are you telling me you can’t identify some of the common symptoms of a failing alternator!? Pshhhh…
:P
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*Gen Y
Not Markdown as a whole, but I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold. Some also know how to
crossthe text. Not much more for a normie, though.I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold
I wouldn’t guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the “normie” world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they’re not just pressing the icon in the gui.
Hell, most of them look at me like I’m a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.
Yeah, I’m a normie, I’m tech literate adjacent-adjacent, by which I mean I’m here on lemmy rather than Facebook, but no. Me and my peers are not pressing ctrl anything. I don’t even know what gui means. Something user interface? I’m not proud to be this dumb, but I’m pretty sure most “regular” people are in this boat with me. I was the third most tech literate person in my entire office last year with a bunch of millennials simply because I was willing to Google things.
Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.
Non-professional: “My computer is making a weird buzzing noise”
Professional: “What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?”
You mean ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶? Yeah. It can be done without markdown.
Those are usually broken on screen readers.
OIC. I should have thought about that.
And here I was considering making this the default way of doing a strikethrough.On the other hand, perhaps we should update the screen readers to make that work. Maybe it can be added as a category of stuff that is to be explained separately.
The least I can do is install a screen reader and know what it does with this.
No
