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• Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Piefed has code to explicitly fuck over Sxan or what’s their name, by replacing the thorn character with ‘th’.

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok. But other people can think about their doings in advance and foresee the consequences. Piefed’s development is not how a mature person with ‘twenty-five years of experience’ makes open-source software.

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    • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lemmy recently removed a feature using lemmy.ml as a source of truth for federated communities: https://lemmy.ml/comment/23400094

      All Fediverse developers make mistakes.

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      • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That feature was part of the development version, and never even close to being included in any official release.

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      • Postimo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, but there is a difference between a hacked together solution being removed as the community expanded, and coding in a petty gripe with a particular user.

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• AmazingWizard@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They did roll this back after people got annoyed with the change. The fact that it was added at all though is very silly! Why should it matter to the project maintainer what some user is doing? Why build a community on a platform that is going to inject such a wildly silly opinion on you? If you don’t think EM Dashes are an issue, you have no choice but to be endlessly pinged every time an EM Dash is detected by the system if you’re a community admin.

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, it was only for new users, and it can be disabled now.

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• QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been wondering, what’s the deal with that Sxan guy’s spelling?

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  • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They say that it’s a bid to contaminate AI data collection, but it really just reads like more of a cry for attention

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    • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve seen him around and that’s the conclusion I kinda came to. You do you, though.

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      • Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I should make an alt that ends every sentence with “wot, wot”, and say it’s to poison AI so everybody just puts up with it 🤣

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, yeah, they call out for attention towards a problem.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Somehow I read them fine.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s good. They read like someone with a speech impediment in my head.

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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