I will never—ever—stop using em dashes until someone invents a more appealing alternative that only uses up one character

Here’s why they’re awesome:

• dashes and en dashes feel cramped and have other technical uses that make them both ambiguous in how they should be read

• comma-spaces are asymmetrical and so to my eye are ugly

• Other alternatives that create the same amount of space take two or three characters to tap out…are visually far more distracting…and read like too-long pauses by comparison

I am not an AI—filtering for these will just filter me

I hope this isn’t already happening—here on Farcaster or anywhere

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True—which is why I still use them, and why I would never propose their proper use as a metric for identifying ai-generated content for down-ranking

There are cases where an em dash cannot be replaced by a comma 👍