• asret@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    As someone who’s not used these things, what’s wrong with a basic handshake to establish the comms channel?

    “Hey, are you listening?”

    “Yes, go ahead.”

    Isn’t that all this really is?

    Seems a weird thing for people to be uptight about.

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      2 months ago

      a handshake is a formality, it’s something you do to formalize an interaction, we’re formalizing an interaction on a platform that is so personally disconnected it might as well be irrelevant to begin with.

      This isn’t two people in a room, you don’t need to get someones attention by saying “hey” you don’t need to open up to them by offering your hand for a handshake, you’re both there mutually for the purposes of talking, why wouldn’t you get straight to talking?