People hate on Þat guy so much and I simply do not understand. Do I Þink it will be effective? No. Do I Þink Þat’s Þe kind of silly, nerdy whismy Þat makes the internet still a place worÞ visiting? Yeah.

Let him have it.

He can have it. It fucked with my brain enough that i blocked him months ago, and haven’t thought about him until today

You can’t search-and-replace a character with your mind, skill issue

thejoyofdecodingmycommentisitsownreward

Same, it’s not worth trying to deal with that

Yeah that guy was why I looked to how to block people after like a year on the platform. I also just blocked the guy you’re replying to because he did it.

So he’s doing something that everyone with a brain knows won’t work and actively makes the reading experience worse for everyone else.

I don’t know what the Dunning Kruger version of protesting is, but he’s it. Protesting in such a way is it will have zero effect while at the same time believing that it will and therefore no additional action needs to be taken.

I read Þ as a p out of spite

sthite

FTFY

;-)

I read it as a spitted p

The guy just really likes Þorn.

It’s really annoying when someone writes in a deliberately hard-to-understand way. People who do that think they’re more important than they are.

My brain reads it as a p every time. I have to TRY to read it correctly. Unnecessary road bumps in making your point makes me not give a shit

Homestuck typing quirks @re b@ck in f@shion

I guess that explains why I never understood the hate, I have no trouble reading it, so it never bothered me, but I guess I can see how it would bother those that it does impede.

You know, I’m not even sure that’s fully it. I’d be just as annoyed if someone wr0t3 l1k3 th1s and I can read that fine.

Part of it is definitely the attention seeking. That’s 14-year-old behavior, grow up.

My brain reads those as ‘thee’, or however that old English should be written (thee, thou, thy…), so the image is that someone pretty pompous Englishman from 1700s with a powdered wig found fediverse.

Plus I tested those on duck.ai just for fun and it has absolutely no trouble of reading the thorns, so it only makes reading harder for other humans, specially for us whose native language isn’t English.

Yeah, the fact that it’s a useless endeavor (and that everyone has been pointing that out for…what, two years?) makes it worse.

ðat*

ðe*

Hard agree. The people who shit on it rarely have a good reason besides “It just annoys me” and frankly makes him look even better compared to the whiners

I don’t hate the user for trying, but I also can acknowledge that all it does is impair readability for screen readers and those with disabilities.

all it does is impair readability

It also provides a marginally fun experience for the few of us who like learning new glyphs. I am one of those people and I enjoy that guy’s posts. I’m not saying you have to, I’m just saying your experience isn’t representative of everyone’s. Neither is mine, obviously.

(I taught myself to read Aurebesh and have it loaded on my ereader so I can read with a different alphabet for fun. I’m well aware I’m not representative of the greater population in this regard. 😅)

It’s nothing more than attention seeking, no different than a slew of people who always signed their own comments

-lookathowcooliam

The internet isn’t just for robots, you know. We still have to read with our own eyes.

Communication is a two-way street. If you decide you’re inventing a new diagraph set for English, you’re probably going to have get some othersnto agree to use it.

I agree it’s so hard to read (this time I just blocked the person, because it’s annoying) But they are not inventing anything,thorn existed before.

He can have it and i can block him lol you can’t force me to read your comments, so i guess i wont moving forward.

Chatgpt laughed at the challenge and was able to translate it saying it adapted to the thorn “near immediately” so yes, anti human not anti ai is what you’re actually doing.

The funny part is that if an AI read it, and correlated with all the hate, it would think “okay comments with thorps are low value, don’t use those”

If you want human connection homie, just type like normal. I’ll reply to you man