So occasionally, my router will reset or my connection will be degraded for some reason or another. thankfully, VRChat detects when its available again and automatically reconnects you to where you were. The only issue with this however, is that the social aspects such as friend requests, invites, and other social based notifications no longer work. this means you have to restart the game anyway in order to join anyone directly. this isnt hard to recreate, launch into a instance, disconnect your wifi, wait for vrchat to say connection timed out, reconnect wifi, wait for vrchat to reload into that instance, and try to send invites or receive them, and youll see they dont work anymore