You know how you and your friends with different email services can still email each other?

Now imagine all the messages you “email” back & forth are instead messages you’ve posted on a message board, and anybody can read & reply

To address another complex matter if they ever ask:

You know how your email service can help sort or block spam in your incoming email? Hosts of one message board service can filter/block other particular people’s/services’ messages from showing up to your feed, too

One of my coworkers prepped a salad for me once, without me asking. Halved grapes, sweet potato, romaine & kale, chopped hard boiled eggs, and other stuff I don’t remember - with some homemade balsamic mixed in. I felt like it had all the textures of the rainbow except pudding.

It was really weird for me, but it was alright. I had no choice because she made a whole bowl for me beside her own @.@

This was my first impression, too. Like they’re used to typing orders at an LLM, but not used to the conversational style of a forum