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Yeah for some reason lemmy just discards any formatting (including line breaks) when parsing website content. But I think that's because Lemmy has a very weird way of dealing with line breaks in general.
Lemmy uses Markdown for formatting, just like Reddit.
I know that, but it uses some weird Markdown implementation where new lines aren't actually new lines for some reason. GitHub Markdown doesn't have this issue.
I think ignoring newlines is normal for markdown and GitHub flavoured markdown is the one deviating from the standard.