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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people I've seen on the internet fail at it. The important thing is not to speak your mind, but to "support" the OP. You can support them by disagreeing well & you can "mis-support" them by agreeing stupidly Every "utterance" (status, tweet, whatever) is a bit of an invitation, a bit of a proposal. "Let's play this game". When strangers read the proposal accurately, and support the game, a shared understanding develops. You can make friends this way.

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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people I've seen on the internet fail at it. The important thing is not to speak your mind, but to "support" the OP. You can support them by disagreeing well & you can "mis-support" them by agreeing stupidly Every "utterance" (status, tweet, whatever) is a bit of an invitation, a bit of a proposal. "Let's play this game". When strangers read the proposal accurately, and support the game, a shared understanding develops. You can make friends this way.
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Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 16:59:14 UTC Danilo Campos 🇵🇷
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The way to make friends on the internet is, in the words of Twitter viral dude visakanv, to support the OP
Which is not to say be a sycophant. Sometimes entertaining a bid means to take it seriously enough to disagree. But to do so in a way that PASSES THE VIBE CHECK is what matters.
something happened to the culture here that just lobotomized any ability to read vibes lmao

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