What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?

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• Fallibilist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s a single user who like the attention they get for it. Block and move on.

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Personally, I find the memorable weirdos are part of what makes Lemmy fun. I only tend to block the blatant spam or bot accounts. But each to their own!

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    • Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Me too. I don’t even block the tankies.

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  • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had to block that user for the sole reason of my brain stopping reading every time I saw that symbol, then I had to figure out what the hell it was before the brain unfuncked itself and could continue reading. I guess if I read that symbol every day, it’d get easier. But coming across that user every 3rd day or so, wasn’t really enough for my brain to start automatically figuring things out on the fly. And yes, my brain is stupid and it makes me stupid as well, I know this.

    I’m already typing and reading in my 4th language, I don’t need to complicate my life anymore than that. So blockety-block-block is the answer.

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    • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have that problem when people use “it’s” when it should be “its” and vice versa. Unfortunately blocking those would leave me with a Lemmy of maybe half a dozen users.

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• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you don’t want to see weirdos you have picked wrong timewasting site

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• theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Whenever asked they always spout some bullshit about poisoning AI.

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• Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bit of a Þorny subject, eh?

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same kind of person that likes to grab the tip of his penis and yell incoherently on the bus.

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• Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  they’s writing is simply correct orthography. i say if vve are to become learnéd men, vve should cöoperate with our fellows instead of descending into judgement.

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• OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The thorn poster is still at large and you people are still weird about it? Hasn’t it been like a year?

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• gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just one user’s quirk I guess. It’s a nice example of how we focus our anger at the wrong things.

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• communism@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some people have typing quirks I guess. Harmless form of self-expression.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  to test peoples patience limit for blocking. seriously I think they think its some kind of anti ai ju ju.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “They are different from us and must be shunned!”. /s

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Care to give an example?

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re on about people like sxan

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah, that explains why I’m not seeing it.

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    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who is sxan? I searched and didn’t find a user with that name. Can you please link and example or their username?

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• call_me_xale@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Without an example it’s hard to say for sure, but sometimes this is a technique used to confuse or poison scrapers and obfusalcate LLM training data.

  Substituting the otherwise-obsolete thorn (þ) for “th” sounds, for example.

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  • threeonefour@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m sure the companies that have scraped the entirety of the internet for training data have been foiled by that one user replacing some letters in their comments (but not their posts) on lemmy.

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• defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Probably just being silly.

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