The Markdown-to-LinkedIn problem nobody's really solved

Small but real annoyance: I was using AI to draft a LinkedIn post. It came back nicely formatted in Markdown — bold headers, bullet points, clean spacing.

The second I pasted it into LinkedIn, all of that disappeared. Flat, unstyled text. No bold, no lists, nothing.

Turns out LinkedIn doesn't actually support rich text formatting in posts at all. Even "bold" text you see in LinkedIn posts isn't real bold — it's Unicode character substitution dressed up to look like styling.

Which raises the obvious question: why is there no simple way to take AI-generated (or just normally formatted) text and convert it into something LinkedIn will actually preserve?