Does the average person know markdown?
Does the average person know markdown?
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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Nope, no chance.
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No
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Maybe?
Nah
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The issue for a long time was that there is no markdown standard, so everyone had their own version of it.
CommonMark is gaining ground, so hopefully markdown will be the same everywhere soon
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Without clicking, I know exactly what one this is lol
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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.
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No, the average person struggles with WYSIWYG editors
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I hate it when someone dumps their log file without using a code block. Even seen some Arch Linux users do it, which is, unsurprising really.
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Yes, no, maybe.
I don’t know.
Can you repeat the question?
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Nope. Most tech people don't know what markdown is.
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I would guess they know a bit about lists using “-“ and a few people might know about using asterisk to bold stuff, but other than that probably not.
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No
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And quartz, of course.
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Of course.
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Most people are probably at least aware that there are contexts where their basic plain-text formatting (like asterisks for bullets) will get cleaned up to a prettier format when they post it.
They may not know the name of the format or all the available features.
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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.
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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.
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Elder Millennial here. All I know about markdown is:
- To make a hard copy of a thought or conversation. "Mark that down in your notes, so we don't forget."
- A discount or sale. "Did you see the 30% markdown on three legged jeans?"
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And yet you just used it! Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like:
- Numbering your items
- will automatically format them
- into ordered lists
- and if you use
-it's an unordered list
- same with asterisk
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Markdown is 100%[^1] intuitive.
[^1]: for certain definitions of 100%.
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Still don't have any idea what you're talking about.
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Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like
And then other parts of it are just infuriating. Like how if you try to post song lyrics or something, the markdown just mashes every sentence together in one line for some reason. So you have to know the secret code just to make gdamn new lines. I actually pressed enter to go to a new line 5 times in this paragraph but it comes out all jumbled together after posting.
As far as I'm concerned, I shouldn't need to know some special formatting just for return to work properly.
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Any Elder Millennial born after 1979 can’t Markdown, all they know is jot that down, 30% off on jeans, nostalgia for blockbuster, eat hot chip and buy avocado toast
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30% markdown on three legged jeans? Damn, that's almost one whole leg for free!
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No.
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No, and they don't want to
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I only know some characters
like this oneLike this one
Does anyone know the best markdown-learning platform?
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I don't know about "best," as that probably varies per individual, but I always recommend reading at:
https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/
and if you want to experiment in private, there are lots of live editors; locally I recommend Obsidian. If you don't want to install anything, there are also in-browser options such as:
https://markdownlivepreview.com/
(I have not used this and so cannot comment on its quality, but at a glance it looks good)
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No
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NO**
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.llɐ ʎɐ ʇou
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They do not imho
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hehe
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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.
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I fucking clicked it. I don't know what i was expecting.
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Voyager saved me
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XcQ, link stays blue.
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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.
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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.
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My opinion
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don't forget Discord
victimsusers
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*Gen Y
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