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You need to stop pointing at ProPublica as if you’re copying them, because you aren’t.

I am though. Its showing a justification that a post/comment can be licensed. I mean, by default all content is already licensed, I’m just licensing mine with a more restrictive license to prevent commercial usage.

The reason people are annoyed by you is because it amounts to spam.

Its not spam, it has a purpose. Its not advertising.

It could be client specific as well.

And yes, if a client can’t support subscript/superscript fonts, per Lemmy’s formatting instructions, then the user needs to contact the devs of their client, to fix that problem.