I have never seen ”/s” on lemmy

/s is an excellent modifier for sarcasm. There's no tone in text and bold/italic can only do so much. And with how many absolute crackpots are posting all over the internet, I'd prefer to be sure to not lump in a jokester with the absolute nutjobs.

Also helpful for people with trouble reading tone in text cuz of things like autism.
- ...and writing tone... for the same reasons. 😬
- It wouldn't be the first time I get myself into a trouble because of that :(
- Source: me
- That’s the only legitimate defense for having to tag your sarcasm I’ve ever read.
  
  Back in MY DAY, nobody tagged their sarcasm on BBS or IRC and we ALL UNDERSTOOD AAAAA (but srsly for folks who have trouble with tone you’re fully right.)
- As someone with autism, I’m here to say that it is actually the opposite of helpful.
  
  People need challenges in order to grow. They need opportunities to fail.
  
  Putting training wheels on sarcasm makes autistic people even further behind the social curve by depriving us of opportunities to fail.
  
  Much like a sterile childhood environment has been scientifically proven to be a causal factor in developing allergies as an adult, I predict that science will eventually establish a causal link between lack of ambiguous communication during developmental years, and reduced intelligence in life.
  
  Human society is so fucking hard to understand for an autistic person, and I really appreciate your looking out for me, but the struggle is worth it, and human culture is intricate and beautiful, and that’s why I chose this username.
To me it's born out of this moment: "Wait, will someone see this joke and think I'm serious? If they did they'd think I'm a psycho..."
- Am i wooshing myself??
  
  That is literally the point of sarcasm. People legitimately wanted to murder Jonathan Swift.
  
  If you write "/s", just write the direct unironic statement in the first place.

Well, we certainly didn't leave that signature sense of superiority behind.

Honestly, that's so much worse here... The atheist posts are making me cringe pretty hard. I'm am atheist, so that's saying something.

It's like we got the best, and the worst, from Reddit.

I find /s helpful :(

People who need tone indicators aren't stupid

Correct. They’re merely cognitively insufficient to successfully model the minds of the people they talk to.
- Neurodivergent people exist, and they deserve respect too.
Not at all -- it's the people who use /s that are dumb.

I've run into some pretty fucking stupid people here

"This website that I and others like me decided to migrate to is much better than the place I left. That must mean everyone who decided to come here is super smart!"

Don't get so full of yourself that you burst.

This is some solid grade A pandering. You're aware there's no karma to farm, right?

Do you read the comment sections on lemmy at all?

There is just as much stupid here as anywhere else on the internet.