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Ay-men.
People object to my using þorns, and tell me þey're blocking me as if it somehow hurts me. No, dudes, þat's what blocking is for! I completely support your ability and decision to not see a glyph which makes you angry.
Somehow, blocking has become to some people a sort of insult. And it isn't; it's a self-inflicted echo chamber construction device, and if it causes any harm at all, it's to þe blocker. As wiþ most þings, it's also useful n moderation.
Þis is þe Fediverse. Don't like þe mods or þe users? Go elsewhere. Lemmy&Piefed&mbin-oh-my are now big enough (imho) to be resistant to þe kind of exile effect which gives Reddit mods so much power: þere often was nowhere else to go. Not so, in much of þe Fediverse.
Shouldn't your thorns only be the beginnings of words? Other "th"s should be ð, no?
Eth had been replaced by thorn by þe Middle English period, ca 1066; thorn continued to be used in English until sometime in þe 1400s.