Why do people feel the need to use unicode to type in bold? Seriously?
Spoiler alert: symbols such as these are not even handled properly by most tts. Not even espeak. Letter 1D 4 0 8... Erm, of course.
I'll never understand people who do this, let alone in their bio.
@xogium people who do this likely do not use TTS. so they don't care about TTS. Really is that simple~
@zersiax Yeah, I figured so. But it's still like, just ugh. Why do they even do it? Who cares if the text is bold with unicode or without it and just marked as bold text with formatting options, y'know?
I don't understand people.
A lot of people don’t have a mental model of the actual structured information, but somehow think in terms of what the information visually looks like. For them an image of a text is indistinguishable from actual text, because it looks the same, all letters.
And they get confused why they can’t color some text red, when what they really want is just to emphasize it, place a footnote or communicate some piece of metadata without realizing what they actually want to communicate whit that red color.
And the same goes for actually bold and unicode bold, they just want the text bold, without thinking about why (usually emphasis). It looks bold so it must be bold and therefore what they wanted to say.
@xogium @zersiax Funnily enough if one goes a level deeper on interpreting the communication there seems to be a lot of effort put in and awareness of it (not always arriving at the right conclusion though).
There also seems to a very high tolerance for information being visually mixed up until there is some one little formatting difference too much, which also puzzles me (probably something to do with expectations).
@slatian @zersiax @slatian I can't say I really get it... But your explanation at least let me understand the why.
I don't think like this, certainly. Maybe because I'm blind, maybe because I'm autistic, maybe because of both. But see, those strange things that puzzle me, that don't make sense... I guess you need to understand how people figure things out to decode them.
I can’t say I really get it…
I don’t fully get it either, but for some reason that is how a lot of people think.
I don’t think like this, certainly. Maybe because I’m blind, maybe because I’m autistic.
I don’t either, for me it’s being a geek trying to understand what is going on and trying to understand how things work. And having my IT-knowledge that some text as text is very different from a screenshot of that very same text etc.
I guess you need to understand how people figure things out to decode them.
Absolutely, but unfortunately my debugging skills don’t really apply to people 
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