I’ve seen formatted text in some posts (bold, italic, etc). How is this done?
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It’s markdown, not all clients render it though
It's just markdown. Type the following in a new post.
```
**This is bold.**
*This is italics.*
* List 1
* List 2
# Heading 1
```
Damus must use a different syntax? This is how your post appears for me in Damus. But I’ve seen other posts with formatted text. So I’m curious what syntax Damus recognizes.

Its because it was wrapped with backticks. https://markdownguide.org
Ah! Ok thanks.
Correct. I was showing you examples of how to do it in a code block. ;)