It was direct character change into "th" which is what they used it for - it wasn't designed to change the meaning of a message, moreover the user wasn't doing it because they are neurodivergent (as you alleged previously). Although someone did note here that, as far as it is, the letter is part of Icelandic - so in that sense it was misguided.

Also, Piefed literally has (rudimentary, perhaps) flags for potential AI accounts that are forwarded onto instance mods if they choose to activate it. Rimu is not likely to bake in any pro-AI sentiment into the system when he's building tools to try and detect it with an eye on banning potential AI-run accounts.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was using the pro/anti AI as an example but the point is, Piefed already has a history of editorioalizing user discourse secrelty and for the benefit (or whininess) of the dev. I could have used eg.: pro/anti shipping, or pro/anti consumerism instead. The point is the reputation is hard to earn back.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

It's not really editorialising anything here. It doesn't change the meaning of anything.