[P]erhaps traditional distinctions between left and right don’t make sense any more. The right, Varoufakis says, “thinks of capitalism as like a natural system, a bit like the atmosphere”. Whereas the left “think of themselves as people created by the universe in order to bring socialism over capitalism. I am telling you: you know what, you missed it. You missed it. Somebody killed capitalism. We have something worse.”
The early internet, he says, has given way to a privatised digital landscape in which gatekeepers “charge rent… The people we think of as capitalists are just a vassal class now. If you’re producing stuff now, you’re done. You’re finished. You cannot become the ruler of the world any more.”
Well reddit didn’t require that, it just made a continuous quote across paragraphs until you stopped quoting. But I think this way is better, because it lets you separate different quotes without having to put something in between.
Not sure which way is the official Markdown way.
Lemmy could really do with a cheat sheet/FAQ page or something to list all the little commands. Like instance agnostic links -
/c/community@instance,!community@instanceand/u/user@instancewill all link to your own instance, rather than the user’s or the community’s. For example, /u/tweak@lemm.ee will be my user page on your instance.The comment editor does have a little ? sign inside a circle that brings you to the formatting help page, but you’re right, there’s nothing there about the intricacies of linking communities or pinging someone.