put yours in the comments if you want, here’s some that I’ve thought of

1. to separate two lines, you need a full empty line between them, otherwise they will combine into one line. (this is not always required, check your preview)

any more empty lines will be squashed down to one, though zero width spaces can help with this

line 1

line 2

2. you can make spoiler dropdowns that don’t have any text next to the arrow by using a zero-width space instead of the second ‘spoiler’ text

3. you can place images next to text to make pseudo-emojis, just make sure they are small so that they are a similar size to the text

4. you can embed things other than images: gifs, audio, videos, etc

whether you can actually upload them may depend on your instance, but you can use hosting websites to do this as well, just make sure the text is formatted correctly

![](https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/6/60/Demoman_cheers03.wav) gives you

5. it’s a good idea to read the instance rules of whatever community you’re posting to, as well as the rules of the community itself. lemmy’s decentralized nature makes it a lot easier to miss out on instance rules

6. pasting a link with text highlighted will turn that text into a link label, this is different from other social medias that just replace the text outright (this includes other links, which can be annoying)

7. on a similar thread to the above tip, you can use link labels to make links that go to a different place than where they say they go, this can be used for epic pranks or secrets

[example.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) appears as example.com

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This is copy-and-pasted from the removed post on c/piracy

I think the post being removed was dumb but to be fair I did violate the rules there