• MrShankles
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    7 months ago

    Does the added “amp” do anything more in the function? I’m the curious, not (entirely) dumb type

    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      It’s a failed html escape sequence for &

      some lemmy instances were having trouble with that for a while now. html used ampersand to encode special characters, and a regular ampersand gets encoded as &

      Somehow, the decoding sometimes breaks, and we get to see it the way it is here