What's the digital equivalent of running into someone at the grocery store?
Closest I can think of is attending the same small-scale zoom event within a niche community
As far as I can tell we've yet to properly design spontaneous run-ins with mutuals on the web
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I find this happens on Twitter with me on occasion. I catch someone I don’t hear from often as their tweet is at the top of my timeline and we end up catching up.
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Yeah, I wish there were more ways for mutual visibility
Currently, you see the tweet but the tweeter doesn't see you
Unless you like / reply. But those both have other existing meanings (approval / additional thoughts) vs. the nice meaningless "hello, how are you? " grocery chat