Lists are awesome :meow: So let's talk about them :D
The basic list format is avaiable everywhere on dA, you do not need a premium membership to create a list. Of course you could just use :bulletgreen: or a symbol like ~ to indicate a new list item, but an actual HTML coded list has a lot of benefits over that.
Especially when you have single points that exceed a single line a HTML list, a line break appears at a spot you cannot control and therefore you will end up having no indentation and it will just look messy.
You don't have to be a Premium Member to use the HTML for lists, see FAQ #104: https://www.deviantart.com/help/104 - What HTML formatting can we use on DeviantArt? And what is the format for these codes?
You do need it, if you want to use Journal Skin