Why was ß removed from the German alphabet?

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because ßeven ate nein

I forgot to ask how are German dialects inlduing those in Austria and Switzerland etc. different.

it wasn't

only the swiss don't use it because their pronounciation rules are different

Was it? Are you serious?

ssssseven

They want to emulate their Anglo masters

Greek letter Beta is better

Greeks have 3rd s too
Greek third s is better

They actually added uppercase ß to the alphabet. It's only (((Switzerland))) that refuses to write and speak normally.

>Germans
>Normal

Greek variants are weird..

β-ϐ
ε-ϵ
θ-ϑ
k-ϰ
π-ϖ
ρ-ϱ
σ-ς-c
Υ-ϒ
φ-ϕ

it wasn't. you find it on every second street sign

yeah but i heard that there was some reform in 90´s or 00´s

there were some words with ß that didn't add up to the grammar rule of ß so they changed them- but all words that are supposed to be written with ß still are.

daß · Biß · Kuß, geküßt · laßt · Meßergebnis
became
dass · Biss · Kuss, geküsst · lasst · Messergebnis
as far as i know that's basically it

Also Liechtenstein doesn't use it.

Liechtenstein is a Swiss town that forgot which country they were in.

No it isn't
Irredentism is mental illness

why exactly did it happened? what was wrong with ß?

there was one in 1995, All the German teachers I had in school agreed, though, that it fucked up the language more than it helped.
We recently witnessed one after-effect of that reform
Before 95, when you couldn't write ß, you were to write sz instead, in 95 they changed it to ss.
before 95: Carl Friedrich Gauß became CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSZ
after 95: Gauß became GAUSS

Because of this you can't discern between ss and ß when writing in uppercase letters. Because those idiots in charge of the German language didn't want to admit they made a mistake, they didn't simply go back to sz, but added a new uppercase ß which looks exactly the same as the lower case one: (ß vs ẞ - see the difference? I don't).

The Swiss were the sanest ones here, they simply removed the ß once and for all back in 1995.

ß is not a greek letter... It's a ligature of "s" (actually a long s in old German) and "z".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß

ss makes the vowel before short while ß does not.
Compare Gasse and Straße. ß itself is a ligatur and thus a real special snowflake. The rules now make more sense as the use of ss & ß adheres to the pronounciation of the particular word.

How did people differentiate Maße and Masse in written text before anyway?