Negative thoughts flooded my mind. The EU is constantly trying to push Chat Control. They’re blocking bootloaders on phones, introducing ID and face scanning everywhere, in the US they’re trying to push system-level verification, corporations are spitting in our faces and don’t even hide it. I know we have to fight. My personal rebellion was joining Fediverse and Lemmy and quitting Reddit. But seriously, boss—I’m tired. Are our attempts to preserve internet freedom futile? Can we win against corporations and politicians who we pay but don’t listen to us?
How do you even type an em-dash?
Lemmy lets me do it by typing three hyphens - - - without spaces—like this.
But I really don’t see a reason to use anything other than a hyphen - it shows I’m human!
oh—that’s neat!
Yea I thought this was a bot, 5 hour old account and such a weird first post containing an em-dash. Glad I was mistaken!
On my system, I can use the compose key to type a bunch of unicode chars, such as
—,…,≠,→and so on. Sadly, the pervasive use of em-dashes by LLMs ruined my use of them… It’s a pity, because I quite like them stylistically.Most word processors do it for you If you type space dash space then any letter, it will convert the dash to an emdash when the letter is typed.
I use Heliboard – on Android — which has a lot of different dashes when you long·press the -regular- dash.
With Linux you can use the compose key or some key combinations, usually with a modifier like AltGr or Shift+Alt.
Alt + 0151 (on the num pad)
Or just press Ctrl + Alt + -
That doesn’t work, try ctrl + alt + del
Dunno, I think autocorrection on my phone placed it for me