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Whats this "/s" for?
While the other response is pretty funny if you know what it means, its entirely unhelpful if you don't.
/s = sarcasm
It's to clarify when people are being serious. Sometimes tone is hard to determine over text, so people started using it to show that there is no inner joke, double meaning, or meta humor at play.
I'm seriously, you guys.
/s
The new Lemmy switch-a-roo.
Pointing to this whenever someone says /s ruins jokes. It's almost like being funny is the thing that makes things funny or not.
The / here is the closing tag indicator, meaning "ends here" and s is "sarcasm", so "sarcasm ends here". If there's text beyond that point, it's no longer sarcastic.
Once upon a time, it used to denote "sarcasm" in Reddit comments. At least 10 years ago, IME, it turned into "sorry for my lame attempt at a joke."