People have been complaining about this sort of thing on the internet for the past decade at least. I remember this exact question being asked on reddit ages ago.

This is an informal internet forum, does it really matter that much? You don’t know if the person is ESL, dyslexic or anything similar

no u

It’s not dead! I make Apple intelligent proofread what I write. 🤓

…but yeah, I’ve completely forgotten how to proofread.

I still take pride in the written word

Go back to reddit

THAT’S WHY I VOICE TYPE.

why boter poofreeding if i could just type watever troll comment i want and clik “post” and get my trol dopamine faster form all the ourtage of all the poeple that will rush to yel at me in all caps

I think part of the problem is that people see the same grammatical mistakes repeatedly and think it’s normal; especially since it seems most of the written content people consume is written by the average person and not edited (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram etc). So they honestly don’t know what’s proper or not.

For example, I’ve seen multiple YouTube shorts in which people pluralized words by adding " 's" to them. Someone I met recently thought the same too.

Not sure if there’s a solution since grammar and spelling aren’t things people care about. Can’t force people to have better written content if their viewers don’t care or know any better.

On one hand some posters don’t give a shit. On the other hand, proofreading your own text is systematically harder than one that you didn’t write. I’m sure there’s some scientific explanation; it’s some kind of fact of life. It’s way easier to spot mistakes in other people’s texts. So don’t be too harsh on other posters; they didn’t hire a proofreader and that’s alright.

Ys

This is the most reddit thread I’ve ever seen on lemmy, get ahold of yourselves.

Usually how it goes for me:

1. Make post

2. See typo

3. Edit the post to fix it

4. See another typo

5. GOTO 3

Sometimes I misspell because I use a FOSS keyboard and it doesn’t have any tracking or autocorrect, but sometimes I mistype a word regardless and don’t go back and read it.

I used to get really annoyed with blatant errors but I’ve grown more tolerant whenever they seem to be bona fide.

What I find a harder time with is the anti intellectual attitude of some people (I’m speaking overall online, not specifically on Lemmy), where writing poorly is used as a kind of code. And in the same vein, people who write using proper grammar and spelling being mocked.

Most of the time I don’t get bothered by typing/autofill errors in others’ posts. (My own often get edited several times.)

But some bring out my inner schoolmarm. I try to restrict my corrections to times when the error is confusing, or if I have a mnemonic that might be helpful. I bear in mind that this is an informal forum, but someone might want to be able to get it right when it matters.