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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 129 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Time mixed cream cough for a berry filled drop.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography/)

At least for me the river between the words made me initially read it that way, too

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)
[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

On Piefed (and I think lemmy?) it doesn’t display the link properly if I don’t have that extra \ (it’s there to cancel out the final parenthesis, so that the markdown knows it’s part of the link)

[–] sandro@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

Not sure if it is correctly rendered by all clients, but you can try wrapping the links in < and >.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)>

... becomes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

It is referred to as autolinks in the CommonMark specification.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Thanks for the info! Your example does display correctly on Piefed 👍

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