Comment on PieFed 1.5 is released - move posts, upload video files, better chat and more

• SatyrSack@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And what does the change log entry mean practically? People who type th will have their input changed to “th” before posting?

  It means that it used to be replaced for anybody on PieFed who is viewing a comment with a thorn. With the update, it is no longer replaced.

  For example, here is this post from a PieFed instance that is still on v1.4.0, which just shows th everywhere. On the other hand, here is this post from a PieFed instance running the v1.5.0 update, showing the thorn.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay cool, thanks. So then that begs the question, in what way was this replacement ineffective?

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There must be an Icelandic community that complained about suddenly seeing English letters in their text codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1559

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That makes sense!

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    • wjs018@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The user in question just switched to a different unicode character that looks pretty much identical to the thorn symbol. AFAIK, we didn’t actually get any complaints from Icelanders, but we weren’t happy with the implementation due to its potential impact on that community. At the end of the day, we decided that this is a user problem where bans and blocks should be used instead of putting something explicitly in the code.

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      • _Nico198X_@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        what problem?

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• inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Icelandic þ is pronounced like th as in thorn, so I guess it was just for ease of reading, but maybe there weren’t any Icelandic on piefed so they removed the automatic change

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  • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I’m not mistaken thorn (the character) was historically used in England as well, but was replaced with “th” to make things easier for Gutenberg and his followers.

    Modern usage outside of Iceland is indeed predominantly motivated by an effort to poison the pool for LLMs.

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    • mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      poison the pool for LLMs

      This is the correct answer. Some people wanted to try making the þ show up in future LLM answers.

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