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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by chefandy on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @02:10PM (#28685706)
> Normal users don't use text like this

I think that depends on the users. People copying and pasting bits of text that was in English or another common languageโ€” think documentation, code, news articles, tweets, etc.โ€” with a different character set could be problematic.

Also, ๐’ฎโ„ด๐“‚โ„ฏ ๐’œ๐“…๐“…๐“ˆ marketed as "๐”ฝ๐• ๐•Ÿ๐•ฅ๐•ค ๐•—๐• ๐•ฃ ๐•ค๐• ๐•”๐•’๐• ๐•ž๐•–๐••๐•š๐•’" would be โ„ญ๐”ž๐”ฒ๐”ค๐”ฅ๐”ฑ ๐”ฒ๐”ญ ๐”ฆ๐”ซ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ฆ๐”ฐ. (math symbols) A user base with young people getting bounced or shadow banned for trying to express themselves or distinguish themselves from their peers would be like เฒ _เฒ  (Kannada letter ttha)

I think targeting the language they're using is a better bet.

ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ (Hirigana letter tsu)

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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by ronsor on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:05PM (#28686209)
I can especially echo the "social media fonts" trend. They're quite popular on certain Discord guilds at least.

Minor nitpick, but ใƒ„ is the katakana tsu.

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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by chefandy on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:22PM (#28688189)
Oh, fact. Not a Japanese speaker. (or reader)
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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by cutemonster on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:07PM (#28689534)
> pasting bits of text that was in English or another common language

If they use many (maybe three? four? or more) character sets in the same post, or different character sets in any single word, then that'd be highly suspicious?

Whilst still letting people copy paste from another language

Special case needed for the shoulder shrug with an Hirigana letter tsu I mean katakana tsu

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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by zerocrates on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:44AM (#28690388)
I've noticed much more usage of alternative Unicode ranges for numbers/letters in email subjects lately to make marketing messages stand out, too (in addition to emoji of course), though I wouldn't necessarily mind banning that...
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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by v_london on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @04:49PM (#28687321)
Bizarrely, I'm seeing recruiters using this on LinkedIn.
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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by chefandy on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:23PM (#28688201)
huh. For any specific purpose? Does it seem like they avoiding paying for recruiter accounts or something by evading algorithms designed to detect their activity, or is it just for the heck of it?
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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by TheSmiddy on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:50PM (#28688797)
It's following some business wank advice to stand out from the crowd like printing your resume on A3 card stock.
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Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build conten... by chefandy on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:58PM (#28698268)
Ah. Sounds like something one of those pickup artists would say if they blindly pivoted into marketing.
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