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)
the problem with being in your early 30s is that you still have twenty year olds following you who both ignore the perspective gap and haven't had much exposure to whatever field it is, but they read all of the wiki on the thing and think that's the extent of it.
and like. I get that I have to just bear this because people put up with me doing not dissimilar but different things in my years but wow do I wish we had a better solution for this.
being a role model nonconsensually sucks but you gotta be a little intentional.
