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

Imagine giving a shit about spelling on an informal public forum. Amazing.

Ys

Wat r u saying about speeling?

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

When have random people on the Internet ever cared about correct spelling and grammar? In any language? I’ve been an Internet regular for over 20 years and if anything, autocorrecting smartphones have improved the average quality of spelling.

Proofreading your own work without a significant time gap is pretty useless. You’ll catch a few obvious errors, but approaching the same problem in the same mental space tends to lead to the same thought patterns, tends to lead to making or overlooking the same mistakes.

You’ll do a bit better reapproaching the subject a few days later. It’s almost, but not quite, like reading a new piece of writing. In my experience, comments are set and forget, unless you’re obsessive like me and enjoy rereading your old shit.

By far the most effective proofreading, though, is an Editor. There’s a reason it’s a paid position for anyone who makes a living writing. A completely different person will read the text more as-is, without accidentally interpreting it how they INTENDED it to be written. This will catch far more errors, but isn’t really practical for shit posting in social media. The closest you’ll get is someone calling out a typo or grammatical error.

As long as the intent of the message is clear, it passes the bar for acceptable social media content. We’re not writing PhD theses, we’re just having fun discussions. We’re not writing a paper meant to be readable to someone independently, we’re engaging in dialogue and can easily ask the other person to clarify.

TL;DR high-level proofreading and error correcting isn’t really as viable on social media as it is formal writing, nor is it really necessary as long as the message received is the message intended.

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.

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

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

no u

I don’t care enough to proofread here.

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

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.

It’s not just proofreading, but people not knowing English grammar.

People seem to be using apostrophes to pluralize words because they get a red line for things like “trys” and notice that “try’s” makes the red line go away.

Ironically, it seems to be more common amongst monolingual English speakers.

I could proofread… for money