mastodon shows that the behaviors attributed to Twitter are, in fact, universal if you don't put in some self reflection to not engage everything you see as if the author can't possibly know things their post seems to make clear they're deep into talking about.
I'm not saying don't share what you know, but what I will say is that, with people who've got intentional expertise in a thing, and not just from messing around? our conversations go much differently, pretty much every time, in a way that makes the behavior a useful filter for people I don't have to spend much time on the opinions of. so i suppose it has a silver lining.
(and some people do both, that is, on things they've intentional expertise in, we have productive conversation, and in things they... do not, it is very much the same pattern)
