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[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"lol" is punctuation. A carryover from a time before we had a thousand different emoji to pick from, and also when casual IM communication was not yet so ingrained our culture that conveying subtle tone came naturally. Lol