When I write like I talk, I use a lot of commas. Replacing some of my commas with em dashies, so long as it was done judiciously, would probably make things easier to chunk.

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stogot 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

I’ve seen people use colons where em dashes are effective. I use em dashes. AI leans heavily on them for same reason

	▲	mcmcmc 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It’s become the exclamation mark of mid-sentence punctuation. It connotes fragmented or interrupted speech in my opinion. The problem is that writing is not speech, that’s why it is more often seen in written dialogue.