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Why Markdown has incompatible dialects

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What was supposed to be a universally simple way to format text immediately shattered into a dozen warring factions. Because the original specification was too vague, every major platform simply invented their own slightly different version of it. Now, formatting bold text correctly requires knowing precisely which tribal variation of the system you are currently inside.

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