• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Ostensibly they do it to interfere with AI scraping social media comments, but of course it does nothing but make their comments more difficult to read.

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      12 hours ago

      Like, how? It’s perfectly readable (even as an ESL can do it without issues, for one). And honestly it’s a goof bit of flavour. Like using ß for things like aßhole, although San’s choice has the advantage that it is actually part of Ebglish.

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        10 hours ago

        WAS part of English. It’s archaic now, and therefore not natural for me to read. I do like the use of the ß, but it’s more familiar to me than to most English speakers since I lived in Germany for 10 years.