Your plain text editor is the markdown reader. That’s the point.

VerifiedReports an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Then that's no point at all. You're not seeing the formatting that the embedded formatting characters call for, so why have them in there?

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nullhole a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It really would be nice to have a convenient renderer for it though. It's genuinely surprising something like firefox doesn't have a markdown reader builtin already.

	▲	matijsvzuijlen 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I wrote one for my own use (on Linux): https://github.com/mvz/mdv
	▲	jdechko a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you’re on a Mac, I recommend qlmarkdown. It’s a customizable quick look renderer for markdown (md) files. https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown

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nacozarina 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

and it looks like poo, that’s the other point

	▲	VerifiedReports an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. You can always count on someone to come back with, "That's why it's so great! You just read it in a plain-text editor!" Why does anyone have to point out how dumb it is to litter your "plain text" file with formatting characters that are never respected?