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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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