It might be specific to Lemmy, as I've only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can't possibly be easier than just writing "th"? And in many comments I see "th" and "þ" being used interchangeably.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh my bad, I didn't know that was the actual reason

Most other thorn-users I've interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so

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