deliberately misleading error message.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Piefed has code to explicitly fuck over Sxan or what's their name, by replacing the thorn character with ‘th’. Meaning you can't properly cite Old English, Old Norse, or modern Icelandic on Piefed. But of course, “Lemmy is the authoritarian communist platform”.
Piefed's code also reeks of a recent college graduate, being a stream of consciousness with almost no comments. Meanwhile the most known, and seemingly most active dev claims twenty-five years of experience, making one wonder if they learned anything in that time (or if they count from when they've typed up some Logo at three years old).
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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.
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.
That feature was part of the development version, and never meant to be included in any official release.
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.
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.
To be fair, it was only for new users, and it can be disabled now.
I've been wondering, what's the deal with that Sxan guy's spelling?
They say that it's a bid to contaminate AI data collection, but it really just reads like more of a cry for attention
Yeah, I've seen him around and that's the conclusion I kinda came to. "You do you", though.
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 🤣
I mean, yeah, they call out for attention towards a problem.
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.
Somehow I read them fine.
That's good. They read like someone with a speech impediment in my head.
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.
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.