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I discovered it this week and I love it! picard-excited Not sure how new the feature is.

It's easy. Just put the citation inside square brackets, and then preface all that with a caret. Like this: Beanis cures cancer.^[I made it up.] It automatically takes care of the numbering and shit.

Example:

Beanis cures cancer,^[I made it up.] and aliens will arrive next year.^[It was revealed to me in a dream.] More and more people are saying these things!^[https://hexbear.net/PPB]

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool

I might use this next time I do a snarky effort reply to a lib. Does it work anywhere else? Has reddit implemented it? I like to copy paste my effort replies often.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems to be implemented slightly differently elsewhere, which would complicate your copy-paste efforts.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

sadness

ahh well i have to do the same with other links too pretty often so

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Leftist posting can get even more leftistier!^[wordier]

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Markdown + Latex will change the world

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's pretty fun! I've seen it before but never knew how to markdown^[beanis]

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have not seen this one before. That's pretty cool. I wonder how many different markdown engines that works in.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Most of the Markdown documentation I've found says to put the caret after the opening square bracket, but Lemmy's is different.

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

That is^[pretty cool]

Wish you could collapse the footnotes like this thoughWould be cooler^[papyrus-cool]

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tell me more about the aliens! Will they take me to their communist planet? doggirl-shock

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's 2026 and the war with Iran is escalating. Netanyahu goes full "yahoo" and launches Israel's entire thermonuclear arsenal.

For the ETs—who have been monitoring our planet for millennia and, since 1945, privately chastising global leaders over nukes—this becomes the "last straw". They uncloak their craft and intercept the missiles before they hit, and in the process finally reveal themselves to the world.

The posad announce that our stewardship of the planet has ended. The road to global socialism is paved, and posadas becomes the most vindicated man in history.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The US has always been run by vampires,^[It is known.] and they moved into Russia in the 90's.^[It is known.] Vampires love their little power games, political intrigue, etc, but they rarely do direct confrontation.^[It is known.] There's only one thing that could provoke them into it: aliens. Ofc, they've had UFO technology for a long time,^[It is known.] but they've never actually captured a live alien, and a lot of the stuff is too advanced or biocoded, so they can't unlock the full potential.^[It is known.] A UFO must have crashed in Ukraine and now both sides think (or at least suspect) that one of them survived the crash.

They probably haven't captured them yet (if they actually even survived), but if either group of vampires gets ahold of them, it's fucking game over. They're gonna go straight for the Galactic Union of Planets and it's gonna be full-on, Castlevania style demon armies from here to the fucking Pleiades.^[It is known.]

And I know there's some fucking crackpot accelerationists out there like, "Actually, it'd be good if the vampires got the alien because then the GUP would have to intervene." Yeah, just like they "had to intervene" if the vampires got UFOs.^[It is known.] Well, where the fuck are they? The Council is filled with these fucking, 90,000 year old vegetables hooked up to a bunch of tubes,^[It is known.] they will not respond quickly enough and they have never taken the vampires seriously enough.^[It is known.] Also, if they do interfere, then we'll have failed the test and we'll be eternally forbidden from interstellar travel.^[It is known.]

Honestly, our best bet at this point is to launch the nukes. The Watcher will shoot them out of the sky, come down and tell us we failed, suck the extra CO2 from the atmosphere, and take control of the planet from the vampires.^[It is known.] Like at this point we're gonna fail either way, the only real danger is the vampires getting to the council, and that's way more important than just our planet anyway. And we'd be much better off under the Watcher than under the fucking vampires, that's for sure.^[This has been a recycled bit.]

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh shit, your story is better cited than mine! sweat

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

hello^[goodbye] ^[adiós] ^[see you later], it's really neat you can do it on multiple on one portion.

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny how the links don't work on comments though lol, it just directs to the post's footnotes

...Wonder if it works for comments if the post doesn't have any footnotes though

[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

that funny, and perhaps? It also does something weird^[with like a second footnote in the footnote^[like this] or ^[or this]] where I guess like the first one in the footnote goes back to the preexisting one? and the second one just makes a new one

[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I love it. Wish it worked.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Idk about the other poster, but I'm using the Voyager app, and it doesn't work for me.

[–] O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Blame Janeway.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can [I]^use^it^to^do^this^?

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

You’ve changed the game for me

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

the kinda official app

This is cool ^[it-is-known]

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Notion won’t do the markdown, but obsidian will. 😩

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

What are these words?

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Boo voyager doesn't render it.

[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is so cool, I hope it works^[It worked :3]

[–] dil@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

What apps are y'all using that support this?

I'm on voyager and it doesn't