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I can't wait until we get bots that repeat catchphrases or tell you when your post contains all the letters of the alphabet! That was the best part of reddit!
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Holy hell
On principle, I am downvoting any typical bot-response comments. Don't do that here, not even "ironically".
I have a thing on my phone that lets me do a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and for some reason lt loses an arm on Lemmy. Made me so sad to realize no bot is gonna answer that.
In programming backslash can sometimes be used to enter special characters. Maybe Lemmy also follows this syntax? If so, typing two consecutive backslashes might help.
Test with one backslash:
Test with two backslashes: \
Isn’t that just markdown? Eg wrapping with a star/asterisk italicizes. If you want to escape that you backslash.
test in italics, made by wrapping with asterisks
* = a backslash escaped asterisk
Here: \ you lost this.
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Hmm yea. That is my main coping mechanism actually. Defective humor or smth.
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You need 3 backslashes:
Backslashes are escape characters:
Zero would convert it underscore italics
¯ (ツ)/¯
apparently the ¯ cancels the italics on it's own so I had to add a space to demonstrate...
One cancels the underscore _italics_
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Two just cancels the escape to the underscore \italics
¯\(ツ)/¯
Three, finally cancels the escape to the escape to the underscore \_italics_
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I miss stabbot, it was the best bot on Reddit.
I've now seen both sides, I just saw people on another thread complaining about how much they hated those bots and how glad they are that the bots are gone LOL
I personally am indifferent on them other than the remindme bot, that one was useful.
I can't wait until we get bots that verge on gaining sentience, like good-ole u/bobby-b-bot
Half the fun of lotrmemes was the memes, the other half was the bots talking to each other. Some were predictable, but some were so well timed it was uncanny.
And my axe!