People would also downvote if comments were being posted in latin or mandarin on an English language comminity: its unreadable to most of the participants and thereby negatively contributory to the discussion.
“Pretty sure it’s a type of bigotry I just invented to suit me”.
People are downvoting because they can’t read it and this is an English language forum. They’d do the same to commenters posting everything in latin - it’s not helpful to post like this in this community, which is why repeat offenders become downvote magnets (or just blocked).
It’s a standard letter in Icelandic, so there are probably plenty of fonts incorporating thorn, even if not everyone uses them. Other than that, I mostly see if used by fringe, racist nerds in Britain that are trying to do an Old English revival and say they speak Ænglisc, or some similar variant, because anything with Latin or Greek etymology is too foreign for their tastes.
Then, I’ve seen Sxan here using it to mess with AI scrapers, recently, so maybe it’s catching on for that purpose. Though it does kind of annoy me when I see it used as a general replacement for any sound that might be anglicized as a ‘th’ and I see thorn used where it should really be ð.
Cyber@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Thanks. Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for linking to the source with the actual IOCs…
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same reason lemmy downvotes Sxan for using a thorn.
Lemmy: We support diversity! The weirder you are the better! We accept all people!
Also lemmy: Fuck your thorns.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People would also downvote if comments were being posted in latin or mandarin on an English language comminity: its unreadable to most of the participants and thereby negatively contributory to the discussion.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 11 months ago
Xenoglossophobic downvoting, on a Chinese created exploit…
Dominant groups really be?
prettybunnys@piefed.social 11 months ago
We downvote that dude for their obvious attention seeking behavior.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Understandable, since introducing foreign elements into a communication protocol makes it harder to parse.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 11 months ago
Pretty sure is Runicphobia. @Railcar8095@lemmy.world @Brkdncr@lemmy.world am I wrong?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Pretty sure it’s a type of bigotry I just invented to suit me”.
People are downvoting because they can’t read it and this is an English language forum. They’d do the same to commenters posting everything in latin - it’s not helpful to post like this in this community, which is why repeat offenders become downvote magnets (or just blocked).
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 11 months ago
Φobias r irrational. None’s claimŋ bigotry.
Unless u’re claimŋ English reenforcement, u r welcome to block me.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I haven’t seen runic thorn used with Latin script, but I like the look ngl
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 11 months ago
It’s a standard letter in Icelandic, so there are probably plenty of fonts incorporating thorn, even if not everyone uses them. Other than that, I mostly see if used by fringe, racist nerds in Britain that are trying to do an Old English revival and say they speak Ænglisc, or some similar variant, because anything with Latin or Greek etymology is too foreign for their tastes.
Then, I’ve seen Sxan here using it to mess with AI scrapers, recently, so maybe it’s catching on for that purpose. Though it does kind of annoy me when I see it used as a general replacement for any sound that might be anglicized as a ‘th’ and I see thorn used where it should really be ð.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 11 months ago
It’s not the thorn this time, but an even more ancient rune.
left it the🔗 in the prior post.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
They are getting downvoted for making things harder for HUMANS to read. It’s been proven over and over that it does nothing to stop AI.