diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 69cd0a67..78adb640 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
     "react-toastify": "^9.1.1",
     "react-tooltip": "^5.10.0",
+    "remark-breaks": "^3.0.2",
     "styled-components": "^5.3.9",
     "web-vitals": "^3.3.0",
     "zustand": "^4.3.6"
diff --git a/src/components/Post.jsx b/src/components/Post.jsx
index 9903c064..e748f4d6 100644
--- a/src/components/Post.jsx
+++ b/src/components/Post.jsx
@@ -2,21 +2,7 @@ import React from 'react';
 import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
 import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';
 import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';
-
-const removeExtraNewlines = () => (tree) => {
-  let lastNodeWasNewline = false;
-  tree.children = tree.children.filter((node) => {
-    if (node.type === 'br') {
-      if (lastNodeWasNewline) {
-        return false;
-      }
-      lastNodeWasNewline = true;
-    } else {
-      lastNodeWasNewline = false;
-    }
-    return true;
-  });
-};
+import breaks from 'remark-breaks';
 
 
 const blockquoteToGreentext = () => (tree) => {
@@ -72,16 +58,14 @@ const Post = ({ content, handlequoteclick, comment }) => {
   return (
     <ReactMarkdown
       children={sanitizedContent}
-      remarkPlugins={[blockquoteToGreentext, removeExtraNewlines]}
+      remarkPlugins={[blockquoteToGreentext, breaks]}
       components={{
         img: () => null,
         video: () => null,
         source: () => null,
         gif: () => null,
         p: ({ children }) => <div className="custom-paragraph">{children}</div>,
-        br: () => <br className="custom-linebreak" />, 
       }}
-      className='line-break'
     />
   );
 };
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 91273195..64b3df9a 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2459,48 +2459,6 @@
     ts-custom-error "3.3.1"
     uuid "9.0.0"
 
-"@plebbit/plebbit-js@https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-js.git#dfaa034957f73441fe6d46e3d53645ac5152ce82":
-  version "0.0.3"
-  resolved "https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-js.git#dfaa034957f73441fe6d46e3d53645ac5152ce82"
-  dependencies:
-    "@keyv/sqlite" "3.6.2"
-    "@plebbit/plebbit-logger" "github:plebbit/plebbit-logger"
-    "@types/node-fetch" "2.6.2"
-    "@types/proper-lockfile" "4.1.2"
-    "@types/uuid" "8.3.4"
-    assert "2.0.0"
-    async-wait-until "2.0.12"
-    buffer "6.0.3"
-    captcha-canvas "3.2.1"
-    err-code "3.0.1"
-    ethers "5.7.2"
-    file-type "16.5.4"
-    form-data "4.0.0"
-    hpagent "1.2.0"
-    ipfs-http-client "56.0.3"
-    ipfs-only-hash "4.0.0"
-    is-ipfs "6.0.2"
-    jose "4.11.0"
-    js-sha256 "0.9.0"
-    keyv "4.5.2"
-    knex "2.3.0"
-    libp2p-crypto "0.21.2"
-    limiter "2.1.0"
-    localforage "1.10.0"
-    lodash-es "4.17.21"
-    open-graph-scraper "5.2.3"
-    p-limit "3.1.0"
-    peer-id "0.16.0"
-    proper-lockfile "github:plebbit/node-proper-lockfile"
-    retry "0.13.1"
-    safe-stable-stringify "2.4.1"
-    skia-canvas "1.0.0"
-    sqlite3 "5.1.2"
-    tiny-typed-emitter "2.1.0"
-    tinycache "1.1.2"
-    ts-custom-error "3.3.1"
-    uuid "9.0.0"
-
 "@plebbit/plebbit-logger@github:plebbit/plebbit-logger":
   version "0.0.1"
   uid "9525ca9539479918931c3b334e8d490d1c87e507"
@@ -2514,21 +2472,6 @@
   dependencies:
     debug "4.3.3"
 
-"@plebbit/plebbit-react-hooks@https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-react-hooks.git#11b519a6ad7a9b96911b2ebb4b7f13cddf5233d5":
-  version "0.0.1"
-  resolved "https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-react-hooks.git#11b519a6ad7a9b96911b2ebb4b7f13cddf5233d5"
-  dependencies:
-    "@plebbit/plebbit-js" "https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-js.git#dfaa034957f73441fe6d46e3d53645ac5152ce82"
-    "@plebbit/plebbit-logger" "https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-logger.git"
-    assert "2.0.0"
-    ethers "5.6.9"
-    localforage "1.10.0"
-    lodash.isequal "4.5.0"
-    memoizee "0.4.15"
-    quick-lru "5.1.1"
-    uuid "8.3.2"
-    zustand "4.0.0"
-
 "@plebbit/plebbit-react-hooks@https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-react-hooks.git#604eab550a9c480cee42bf414581c624ec316f27":
   version "0.0.1"
   resolved "https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-react-hooks.git#604eab550a9c480cee42bf414581c624ec316f27"
@@ -11098,6 +11041,15 @@ relateurl@^0.2.7:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/relateurl/-/relateurl-0.2.7.tgz#54dbf377e51440aca90a4cd274600d3ff2d888a9"
   integrity sha512-G08Dxvm4iDN3MLM0EsP62EDV9IuhXPR6blNz6Utcp7zyV3tr4HVNINt6MpaRWbxoOHT3Q7YN2P+jaHX8vUbgog==
 
+remark-breaks@^3.0.2:
+  version "3.0.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/remark-breaks/-/remark-breaks-3.0.2.tgz#f466b9d3474d7323146c0149fc1496dabadd908e"
+  integrity sha512-x96YDJ9X+Ry0/JNZFKfr1hpcAKvGYWfUTszxY9RbxKEqq6uzPPoLCuHdZsLPZZUdAv3nCROyc7FPrQLWr2rxyw==
+  dependencies:
+    "@types/mdast" "^3.0.0"
+    unified "^10.0.0"
+    unist-util-visit "^4.0.0"
+
 remark-parse@^10.0.0:
   version "10.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/remark-parse/-/remark-parse-10.0.1.tgz#6f60ae53edbf0cf38ea223fe643db64d112e0775"