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No worries! There's definitely some things about Markdown syntax that can be counterintuitive, especially since every site that uses it seems to use a slightly different flavor. If you hit the ? icon (rightmost icon above the comment box) it links to an (incomplete) guide to the Markdown used on Lemmy as well as an interactive tutorial, if that's of interest. Our own WhyEssEff also did a more comprehensive rundown of our particular Markdown features in this post.
More to the point: in my comment, I achieved the line breaks by putting two spaces at the end of each line. The simpler way is to just hit [Enter] twice after each line (as you saw, just hitting it once doesn't actually affect how the post looks). I tend to use the two-space method for lists without bullets/numbers because it's a little more compact, but they'll all get the job done:
Two spaces 1
Two spaces 2
Two spaces 3
Enter twice 1
Enter twice 2
Enter twice 3