this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh that actually worked for me on my sync app. But yes there's issues with the app displaying spoiler tags correctly.

Spoilers are like this >! !<

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Spoilers are like this >! !<

That only works within the Sync app, not Lemmy as a whole. As plantsmakemehappy posted further up in the thread, the Lemmy markdown for spoilers is as follows:

Tap here to reveal the secret.Hidden content

Which is rendered as:

Tap here to reveal the secret.Hidden content

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How is that not what I wrote?

!this should be a spoiler!<

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is not. This is how your comment appears on the official Lemmy web interface:

The first ">" is treated as the markdown for a block quote, and the rest of the text is rendered verbatim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

!test!<

I do not understand what the fuck I am doing wrong and I am losing my goddamn mind at this point.

Edit: I literally typed this exact thing out before and it didn't work. I do not understand why it is working now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I literally typed this exact thing out before and it didn’t work. I do not understand why it is working now.

The old Reddit >!spoiler!< markdown isn't natively implemented in Lemmy, but a few apps have implemented it manually.

This is how your comment appears in the official Lemmy web interface: