this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Lemmy interprets some symbols as formatting commands, for example putting a # at the start of a line turns it into a header:
## header
You can tell it to not do that by putting a backslash before the symbol:
\# not a header
The backslash is called the escape symbol.
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