Require a specific interaction from the user to display your actual email (e.g. click on a button). Even if they run a headless browser, they'll still have to parse the page to figure out what to do and then do it. That's much more expensive.

Imagine getting mail from spam.com

I blocked that asshole a while back.

Maybe we should join in!

I have seen some others, but I checked the account and they haven't posted for a year or so. Seems like they quit after they started using alternate characters.

Do you remember who the second person was?

I haven't see this thing since I blocked Sxan

It's not þat bad

same

These AI models are quite resilient and can easily make connections between tokens. Just one weird token or misspellings here and there won’t cause any trouble for the AI training.

There's a lot of dim people here. Myself included.

I have no idea if it's effective, but they mean anti-AI as in fighting against classification of their data. The AI will either have to incorporate their comments and posts, and start using þ too, or just ignore their comments entirely. Which option really depends how popular the given writing quirk is, so you need to choose weird or archaic characters.

Or repost this to stop Facebook from data mining you.

Unicode smileys are quite cool!

You really notice how tight knit Lemmy is if you have user specific scores enabled or if you leave yourself tags for specific users. [+1] was already next to your comment for instance. Whenever I see double digits profiles I know those are usually regular posters.

They are an asshole for using a font? What exactly were you "calling out"?

"Immune to education." I love it.

WTF is "thretentiousness?"

I get that it's irritating, I also thing it frankly doesn't really matter that much, and this space is a precious escape from the shittiness of the outside world.

Ridicule makes this space worse. It normalizes a way of engaging with one another that poisons culture of the place we "live". It's is bad for us, collectively, to be dicks over stuff that really doesn't matter much. Block them and move on.

I also find it grating, but this space is full of eccentrics with weird ideas, and I'd much rather not spend my time in this space angry and trying to reach someone who doesn't care what I think, over a thing that doesn't matter, and if we normalize that form of engagement it makes the whole platform worse, in addition to just filling me with bitterness and resentment over a thing that really isn't that important

(I'm responding to the broad sentiment I've seen across many replies, not just you, I can understand the sentiment behind telling people they're being irritating. But I'm also replying to the parts of the discussion here with the guy who said we should go back to shaming people for being idiots. That sounds like a good way to make this space toxic, unwelcoming and shitty over minor disagreements.)

Eh. I remember a time on the Internet where L33T SP34k was a thing. I look at the thorn as something similar.

It is a stylistic choice that, even if it doesn't poison AI inputs, is acceptable in Internet forums like Lemmy.

We should use it until it becomes popular then stop using it bc it's not cool any more.

It really doesn't matter that they're using the thorn, and going around being shitty to people on the basis that they're weird and have confused ideas sounds like a perfect way to taint the culture of this space with the same bitterness and cruelty that is so ever present in other spaces online.

Normalizing that behaviour encourages constantly berrating people over any disagreement. When you look at spaces where that is normalized, people are often not in the right when they berate someone, but it's the standard mode of operation. Look at league of legends all chat. I don't want that for this space.

I think your idea is painfully ill considered and significantly more harmful than using the thorn or whatever, but I'm not going to call you a dreadful worthless moron over it and encourage that we all tell you how stupid you must be to have a bad idea, because that's miserable and I care about this space I'm in. Thats not what I go online for.

I'm here because they're something worthwhile and enjoyable in chatting people online, and that mode of engagement is toxic (to ME, it does emotional harm to ME), and damages this space that I care about