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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    11 months ago

    Its just that one guy who does it, i think either out of pretentiousness or to hamper indexing.

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      11 months ago

      He claims it’s to “poison” AI training data.

      Innumerable people have explained to him that this doesn’t work, but he appears to be either immune to education in this matter or is just using this as an excuse to do it anyway for some other reason.