Nah, it’s so that every line in the quotes is connected without having to have an extra ending notation.
Like the way spoliers work on lemmy, you have to ::: at the end, or the software doesn’t know that you’re done.
With quotes, though, that can’t work because you’d need two symbols, which is more confusing than just making sure that every line in quote block is fronted with the >
Nah, it’s so that every line in the quotes is connected without having to have an extra ending notation.
Like the way spoliers work on lemmy, you have to ::: at the end, or the software doesn’t know that you’re done.
With quotes, though, that can’t work because you’d need two symbols, which is more confusing than just making sure that every line in quote block is fronted with the >