It might be specific to Lemmy, as I’ve only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can’t possibly be easier than just writing “th”? And in many comments I see “th” and “þ” being used interchangeably.

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      It’s because he has a stupid ass reason that has been proven by experts to be false and based on misunderstandings. So it just results in arguments over that reason every time he shows up.

      Actually using the thorn isn’t the problem. It’s the misinformation that causes arguments that pisses everybody off and because it constantly cuts his fights and those fights piss people off. It gets associated with the thorn and now the Thorn just tilts people.

      Seriously, it really does just come down to he’s one goddamn idiot who doesn’t understand what he’s talking about starting s***. By being quirky and people are just misassociating the b******* with the quirk.

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      It is fucking hard to read. I downvote them everytime i see it.

      edit: ok i guess i should just block that one person sxan

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      I know it’s a little crazy to me. I know of at least one guy who quit the platform after he started experimenting with alternate characters as an armchair linguist, because of the hate they were getting. Can’t people have their fun or be different? Do you also go crazy if someone makes a spelling mistake or if you see a ßöøê character? In get the misinformation part for the other person, but I still think some of you are overreacting.

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      Yeah sorry about that; you’re probably talking about my comment from the other day lol.

      Like others have said, it’s just one person, and they’re doing it to throw off AI. Problem is that one sample point isn’t going to be enough. You’d have to get millions on board. The only thing that one person is doing is annoying everyone else.

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        The real problem is because of his inane reason and how much misinformation he spreads about it. It constantly causes arguments and fights. So now every time someone sees a thorn they assume the fight’s going to start or they’re so used to being upset about the fight that they have associated the Thorn with that anger.

        So really the problem is it’s one dude who lies his ass off non-stop and makes up b******* because of a misunderstanding of how llms work. Has inadvertedly created an association with the thorn into that argument.

        The thorn itself is not the problem. It’s his b******* that’s the problem. Because he’s such a prolific poster everywhere, it constantly comes up.

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          You’re posting this exact comment up and down the thread. Get a new hobby. Hating on people for doing things differently is juvenile and Republican.

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        I bet it’s the same crowd that blows a gasket when somebody decides they want to write fu*k in the title of a post instead of fuck lol

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            IDK if that one’s exactly comparable, drag (or their partner) has repeatedly clarified about it being explicitly a fetish thing (not just a furry thing, to be clear, it’s very much a fetish) and while they are annoying as all fuck even without the cringe neopronouns, the real issue there is how incredibly not okay it is to force people into engaging with your fetish without their consent. Drag is a dip and (while a lot of the hate they get is probably based around heteronormative societal values and really isn’t justified on that account) the pronouns only exacerbate the pushback they get about their wildly toxic behavior, they aren’t the driving force behind it.

            The thorne thing is just annoying, and would probably be a non-issue if the person doing it weren’t so incredibly eager to draw attention to it and then start fights by spouting rhetoric that at this point they have to know is wrong. They’re not doing anything, like, creepy - it’s just that they’re an asshole transparently doing it as a troll move/for attention.

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                Man it sure is easy to claim victory when you refuse to engage with the other person, ain’t it? But well done for puttin’ me in my place, I sure am humbled to know that someone who balks at reading 179 whole words might disagree with me…

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                    Trying to play off being a jerk to someone over a two paragraph response as you somehow having passed value judgement just makes you look like you enjoy being mean. If this is really what you’re like, twitter is right over there, and they adore this kind of behavior.

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        me good. you different! you bad!

        you be like me, you good! me tell you how! otherwise you stupid/bad and me hate!