Damus deliberately does not format Markdown. It used to and was removed, I believe. Requiring clients understand Markdown adds more complexity to notes that are otherwise and arguably unnecessary.
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Yeah, I figured that after I posted. Things are much more complicated than they may look to the end user.
No reason to have markdown in a “simple” chat client
For now. Hopefully someday Nostr clients consume web browsers, and everything is decentralized. I want my notes to be web pages.
