Consistency

As you may know, a message written in one Reddit client doesn’t display the same in another. Here’s an example:

Example 
```
First line
Second line
```

reddit.com and the official app both render this correctly:

First line
Second line

old.reddit.com, however, renders everything on one line:

First line Second line

They also differ in how they render subscripts with parentheses (a^(\(b\))), nested subscripts (a^b^c), and code blocks and lists that immediately follow text.

Lemmy doesn’t have these issues, since its Markdown specification is clearly defined.

Images

On Reddit, if you want to add images to a text post, you have to use the Fancy Pants editor on reddit.com. If you attempt to edit such a post on the official app, a third-party app, old.reddit.com or the mobile site, these images simply turn into links. Additionally, you can’t attach images in comments.

Lemmy lets you attach images from anywhere, including comments.

Source Rendered
![Lemmy logo](https://join-lemmy.org/static/assets/images/lemmy.svg) Lemmy logo

Multi-line spoilers

Lemmy lets you clean up your post using spoilers:

Source

::: spoiler Heading

Content
:::

Rendered

Heading

Content

Subscript text

Source Rendered
H~2~O H2O
  • glibg10bOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Support for syntax highlighting would also be nice, though Reddit doesn’t have that either:

    Source

    ```c++
int main() {
    // comment
}
```

    Rendered

    int main() {
    // comment
}

    I think that’s it. Its Markdown support is pretty fleshed out otherwise

    • tubbadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      this is a dream… a dream that we’ll probably see in the near future I think, there are plenty of open source libraries that supports markdown