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1. Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 11:30:34 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   @mgorny French has pretty much the same things going on (see attached flowchart for example), but there's sort of a common agreement to throw it all away within internet-based communities (so not just floss but also forums, chatrooms, twitter/fedi, …) where you instead address people familiarly, likely for just simplicity's sake because trying to guess social status is specially hard on the internet.
   
   That said sometimes people on the internet slip back into a slight hierarchical speech and it feels really weird.
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   • cell (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 11:30:31 JST cell

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     • Angry Sun
     @sun @lanodan eh, i wouldn’t call it hierarchy more so than just respect - if i refer to someone by beliau (indonesian equivalent of -sama/様) they’ve earned it
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 11:30:33 JST Angry Sun

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     @lanodan Years ago I was a teenager and working a service job. I was required by the company to use people's first names when addressing them. I hated doing this with old people because I could tell they disliked being addressed by the first name, by a kid, whom they weren't friends with. I guess I am okay with having different rules based on familiarity, I am not fond of of for hierarchy
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 11:31:06 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • cell
     • Angry Sun
     @cell @sun Wouldn't it feel quite distant?
     At least "vous" in french would have that effect if you'd expect the other person to be a peer.