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@ Astro Boy
2025-04-20 21:16:37There’s something beautifully frustrating about writing a post on how Nostr apps handle formatting inconsistently—only to have that very post render like garbage in half the clients.
It’s not just a bug. It’s the essence of the ecosystem. One client shows your italics as underscores. Another ignores your line breaks entirely. A third turns your numbered list into a paragraph soup. Headers might be huge, tiny, or just plain missing. You think you're using Markdown. Turns out you're using "Markdown-ish," which is close enough to be confusing but far enough to cause chaos.
This is the decentralized experience in its purest form. Every app is its own little universe, interpreting the same post in slightly different and occasionally absurd ways. And the kicker? We accept it. We even laugh about it. Because that moment when your meta-commentary on broken formatting is itself broken—that’s not a failure.
That’s peak Nostr.