it doesn’t appear to be easy to do either of those, from some quick testing. Looks like the <p></p> tags have bottom spacing which is causing the issue, mainly, at least in lemmy’s case. weird.

i think if you put less whitespace in between it will format a bit better?

• A
• B
  • Sub 1
  • Sub 2
• C
  • Another Sub 1
  • Another Sub 2
• D
• E

i just tested this here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/2308379

and am seeing the same issue. deleting the root comment removes the entire comment chain. i didn’t notice it at first because (i’m assuming) i’m an admin and can see deleted posts/comments, but when I checked it when not logged in the entire comment chain was indeed gone. and once i un-deleted the comment it was back.

i then deleted a non-root comment, and now it behaves even differently, with a link saying “2 more replies” but when you click on it it just spins forever. will check to see if there’s already a bug related to this issue and report back.

edit: created an issue here, couldn’t find any existing issues: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3886

second for aCalendar+. been using the paid version for a few years now with a self hosted nextcloud instance. works great! works great with other calendars too (google, etc).

if you look at the function that gets the admins, then you can see that it’s ordered by the Published date, so I believe you can just update the Published date to earlier than the rest of the admins.

i believe they typically run as a service on a computer, monitoring the subreddit via the reddit api, the when it finds new stuff, it posts it onto lemmy.