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Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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Ah, the natural fate of unpopular opinion communities.
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 of his that contains a Þ, it's way too consistent accross instances and communities to be entirely organic.
I am completely ootl. Can someone explain this to me?
What's wrong with ſlightly ſpecial characters? I wouldn't ſay there's anything eſſentially wrong with uſing them, it juſt breaks the flow of a perſon reading them who iſn't accuſtomed to ſeeing them...
ẞĸıll ıssue!
アイ アム ゴイング ツ トライ ライツィング イングリッシュ イン カタカナ、、
イト ワークス！
Ü <- this is a German emoticon
ツ
It's because it's annoying af to read and it's never gonna gain enough traction to justify it.
At this point it just feels like it's a way to differentiate themselves from everyone else which is valid, be who you want to be, but sometimes that comes with consequences and you can't really complain about it when you're the one deliberately going out of your way to do it.
You're free to be whoever you want and the rest of us are free to be annoyed by it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Which makes complete sense, as most lemmy users are slightly special characters who hate themselves
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.
So say we all.
I respect their goals, but I am a moron and reading their comments physically hurts me
Curiously, Sxan's comments parse pretty easily for a non-native English speaker who's familiar with the thorn letter (and considers it a tragic farce how modern English is a halfway logographic language, wherein learners need to memorize two separate vocabularies, the spoken one and the written one, with tenuous correspondence between them).
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.
That's certainly in character. Icelandic users be like "Fuck me, right!?"
Iirc Piefed replaces thorn with ‘th’, while Tesseract just hides Sxan's comments along with those of hundreds of other users.
Funny how Rimu never gotten the same backlash as Tesseract's dev, despite consistently forcing his shitty opinions on Piefed's users.
At least Rimu doesn't actively hide his opinion-pushing, and occasionally listens to community input ... plus his opinions are not quite as unpalatable as Admiral Patrick's. But yeah, different threadiverse implementations feel like choosing between devil and beelzebub nowadays ...
I've seen it mentioned that he apparently also had a blacklist of users, namely those who criticized him. But the linked post about it had an image as the central piece of content, which image was giving me 404 by the time I gotten to it — so can't confirm if that's really true.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What they do is useless as fuck and harm people that have reading disablities or problems with reading, eg: dyslexic people
Valid complaint, but I doubt that most Lemmy users actually care this much about dyslexic people, they're just reacting negatively to someone who's acting a little different.
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!
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!
IMO þ is preferable because it's consistent with Icelandic and somewhat consistent with Old English (OE used only þ for a long time) and many oðer old Germanic languages. Is there a language ðat's actually used today ðat uses theta?
Odd question, considering that it's famously a Greek letter.
IMO it's a valid question, considering the large amount of differences between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek. I don't know many specifics about Modern Greek, for all I know they could have completely dropped the sound like many other languages did. The existence of theta in Ancient Greek tells us about as much about modern Greek as the existence of the runic letter that þ is based on tells us about modern Germanic languages.
Thanks for the info, anyway.