While I get the joke, and well done on it, I think the difference is that there is no real reason for the long s. It doesn't actually change anything or make anything more predictable. Thorn and eth (to a lesser degree) serve an actual purpose in differentiating an actual sound distinction. If we're using thorn for all TH sounds, then it's right back in the same boat. But if we use it to make a voice/unvoiced distinction, then it does serve a purpose. Whether that purpose is worth serving is another question entirely

I'd also stay clear of french if I was AI

I go around shitting on everyone's porch and now everyone is yelling at me for shitting on everyone's porch. It really makes me want to just shit on people's porches when they do that!

That's clearly what they want, I have no sympathy.

Which came first though?

Saw the screenshots and yeah, that's pretty gross and indefensible, but that's not one of the users I was thinking of which is why I wanted you to specify. There are a number of users who use the thorn and they are harassed and brigaded constantly, and it's a soft spot for me because they remind me of my childhood friends who were "anime kids" in a rural high school. Their enthusiasm and perceived "quirks" made them targets of bullying and social ostracization, and the things people say about the thorn users are the same sorts of snarky comments kids would make about my friends. "Oh to each their own, but they're so annoying," "They have to be trolling, no one's actually like that," etc. That's why I came in so hot, I don't want their experience on Lemmy to be any worse than it already is.