game dev/sk8r grrl/guitar/flute/tree liker/indie game obsesser/basic autumn bitch. working on hoptix!
<3 @static-echo <3
i have seen several people talk about how they'd like to leave comments more but are afraid of being annoying, and offer this wisdom:
scene girls were right. just be annoying on purpose.
the best case scenario is you make a sincere connection, the mid case scenario is you contribute to a culture where sincere connections happen more often, and the worst case scenario is you hold up a spork at someone. it's fine!!
These are all very good points! I keep meaning to leave more comments, but anxiety usually wins out in the end. Gotta work harder to get past that
i think if we all just keep it in mind we can get there. hard to unlearn 14 years of social media deliberately alienating us from eachother overnight, y'know?
i wish there was a fav button for comments because i dont always have the brains to give people the replies they deserve, but equally i dont want people to think i am deliberately ignoring their words or have something against what theyve said. i know i find silence offputting and i guess i project that onto other people too (and it does stop me from commenting, i guess, but thats my own problem)
i have a bit that i run sometimes where i just write something like "applecinnabun Reacted to your comment with Love and Appreciation! 
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for my part, my adhd seems to be slightly more severe than my anxiety, so i instantly forget every comment i leave after i leave it, so that's nice lmao. genuinely no idea what gets replied to or not :p
So true.
I'm thinking of that one "nothing matters... V.S. nothing matters!" nihilist meme, except it's "I'm so annoying... V.S. I'm so annoying!1 X3"
i feel like a lot of comments do not get responded to on this site, and it is impossible to find my own past comments, so unless it is something that only the op might find relevant i end up sharing and adding my commentary there
it does not feel ideal though
i do think that even comments that aren't responded to are valuable in an invisible way, where the recipient almost definitely appreciates them in a way they're not sure how to express, but it's definitely an understandable barrier that to comment you kind of have to put yourself out there and get nothing visible most of the time.
that said i don't think that sharing and adding your own commentary is a less valuable form of engagement personally!
i agree that interaction and adding our own thoughts if more important that just passively liking things!
the fact that Cohost hides shares it shares fun us though makes it very difficult to have conversations though
