Apparently Lemmy turns my backslashes (used to escape round brackets inside a link) into forward slashes, leading to Lemmy users complaining:

Lemmy does not require the round bracket to be escaped in this case. Why it turns backslashes into forward slashes I have no idea, but it does so even when I try the same thing straight from a Lemmy instance.

Is escaping things with backslashes not common practice in Markdown?

I know there’s so many implementations of Markdown it’s hard to even speak of a Spec, but backslashes serve this purpose almost universally. On computers that is.

I sense an overarching narrative of Lemmy vs Piefed developing here. Or maybe a need for communication between all client developers, on how to implement things so they work across the fediverse.

Hmm, it does feel more like a Lemmy problem in this case.
Where could I raise awareness on the Lemmy side, short of opening an issue on their git repos?