I respect their goals, but I am a moron and reading their comments physically hurts me
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 9 hours ago
The Þ dude is alright and Lemmy users have an irrational hatred for slightly-special characters. I wonder how many people are using automation to downvote every comment that contains a Þ, it’s way too consistent accross instances and communities to be organic.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 hours ago
Read more of their comments until you get smarter and it stops hurting. Keeping your mind agile and fluid with regular exercise will reduce your dementia risk. Next time you see Sxan, tell them thanks for warding off dementia for you.
RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 2 hours ago
It doesn’t make you smarter though. It just makes you able to read this one person’s post with less headache.
If you’re in love with them, you probably should, otherwise meh
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 hours ago
Do you now know about the cognitive benefits of learning more language?
Sure, this won’t improve your brain as much as learning a whole new language like Yolgnu, but it’ll improve your mental fluidity a little bit. It’s a bite sized language lesson.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Since migrating instances, I am lucky enough to encounter them much less than I used to
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I supported him when he said it was to poison AI. Then someone proved to him in a thread it did nothing to poison AI. He didn’t reply and then showed up a few days later still doing it.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 hours ago
I don’t believe Þat it does anything against AI, eiÞer. I am pro “bring thorn and/or eth back to the English language”, Þough, and eiÞer way it’s just not a big enough issue to justify the massive and consistent downvotes he’s getting.
PineRune@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
As someone who has enough interest in etymology to understand the thorn character, it feels weirdly natural to actually read modern English that uses it. Count me as part of the pro-“bring Þ and/or ð back to the English language” group.
That said, it’s not practical to use it at this point because most people would freak out and get upset when they see anything they don’t understand, and most people (at least in the U.S.) can barely read at a level comparable to younger children.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I understand them (and even if I didn’t I could work it out from context), but it absolutely wrecks my reading speed, since I basically have to sound it out in my head instead of just reading the word. I hate SMS-style phonetic abbreviations for the same reason.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 hours ago
most people would freak out and get upset when they see anything they don’t understand, and most people (at least in the U.S.) can barely read at a level comparable to younger children.
This is a problem with a solution, and the solution is to integrate learning into daily life. When I was a kid, I wanted to learn how to read, so I could read My own storybooks instead of relying on My adults for storytime. These days, kids want to learn to read so they can post on social media. That’s good.
Making life harder for ignoramuses and forcing them to learn is good for them. Complying with their desire to remain ignorant is bad for them.
misericordiae@literature.cafe 7 hours ago
I started squinting real hard at the tesseract dev (before the controversy) when I saw a tesseract patch note that said something about getting rid of Þ (in some form, idr exactly, just that there was no mention of an option to turn it off). I think it’s nice to have a few instantly-recognizable posters in the community, esp. when what they’re doing is harmless.
Phunter@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I think it’s annoying but I just don’t read their comments and move on. Same with people who use baby talk or overly refer to themselves in third person. It’s not for me and I know I’m not gonna enjoy reading it, but yeah they’re harmless.
misericordiae@literature.cafe 3 hours ago
Yeah that’s totally fair. I’m not a big fan of all of them, but I’m ok with them doing their own thing.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 hours ago
That’s certainly in character. Icelandic users be like “Fuck me, right!?”
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Sxan! I love his whimsie and really don’t understand the flak they catch. He’s a nice departure from the hate/doom feed. I have to actually intentionally read individual words. It’s like unexpected brain cardio.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 hours ago
Normies hate brain cardio, they want everything to be convenient and effortless. You and Me like having fat, moist, wrinkly brains. These people want smooth, dry, hard brains.
RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 2 hours ago
People who consider themselves “more intelligent than normies” do exactly fit my assumption of who is into that shit
MrQuallzin@pie.eyeofthestorm.place 2 hours ago
I don’t agree with why sxan wants to bring it back, with my issue being accessibility. Screen readers, people with dyslexia, and whatnot. It does nothing to better our communication with each other.
But they’re a part of our community and respect that as their quirk. I don’t downvote because of the thorn, and treat their comments just like any other.
Godric@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
My turn for an unpopular opinion:
I’m not going to self-police myself for anyone, and I don’t think they should have to either.
dingus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
One thing that my brain is bothered by for whatever reason is that he uses the same character for both voiced and unvoiced forms of “th”. That may very well be the proper usage, but for some reason my brain doesn’t like it! Dunno why!
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 hours ago
You should start using thetas and eths in your comments and show ðem how it’s done! Brag about being ðe better user of θorns and ðetas and eθs!
RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Certainly makes one look like a but‡ead
TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
What does @Sxan@piefed.zip have to do with this thread? Are you thinking they post an outsized number of posts on unpopular opinion communities or something?
I’m not sure I remember running across any of their posts more than a couple of times, but their post history doesn’t seem to intersect with unpopular opinion communities very much. (At least not as far back as I’ve scrolled.)
Or maybe you’re talking about someone else or I’m just not following.
jve@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
ÞIs fucking guy.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Most of their comments are in the negatives (usually only the ones that contain a thorn). This indicates that hating his thorn comments is popular.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ah. Thanks. Yeah, you and YiddishMcSquidish explained and that makes sense.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
I think they are saying that the popular opinion on lemmy is to not like sxan. But they do like sxan. So their positive opinion of them is unpopular.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ah. Ok. That makes sense. Thanks much.
blarghly@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Which makes complete sense, as most lemmy users are slightly special characters who hate themselves
saltesc@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s true. I’m only here because I’m a loser with sporadic social skills and a tendency to think much better of my ‘average at best’ intellect. I’m like a John Smith here.