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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, the mathematician. What about him?

!it's a running gag for the onion!<

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tap for spoiler

Hmm

I used:

Tap for spoilerhidden content

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's what I used and it works on my app

Whatever you're using seems to take the > as a comment immediately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I’m using Voyager iOS, but checked this out from a browser.

Looks like this method:

>! spoiler !<

doesn’t work on our (yours & my) instance, nor Midwest Social:

Interesting that Join-Lemmy.org advocates for the format I previously showed in a code block:

yet your client supports the “greater than exclamation point” method. It makes me wonder whether your client should support it.

(Lots of folks like that method though per Lemmy GitHub!)

Which client you using? I’ll share this comment with them.