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Sure. I didn't say "omg r u stoopid who doesn't know this?!" did I? I've seen OP around enough to be surprised myself at the notion that they may not have encountered tankies.
It doesn’t seem like it was their intention to reprimand you, it’s an open discussion after all.
I didn't take it that way, I was just answering why someone might be surprised to learn about lemmy.ml even after they've been around the block a few times. It's often taken for granted that beginners will have gaps in their knowledge, but even long-experienced experts will have foundational gaps occasionally that everyone in the domain assumes is universal knowledge. Just the nature of learning about stuff.
Can you say this louder for the Linux community? XD
lol it's one of the axes I grind everywhere I go. It seems like human nature to believe that expertise is a linear progression and that someone "more expert" should know everything that someone "less expert" knows, plus some. It's tricky because in casual conversation, that's likely how it's going to appear, because experts generally do have a firm grasp of most of the basics. But there are always exceptions, and if you dig deeply and broadly enough, you'll find them. At least I do, and in many different domains of expertise.
It's one of the reasons I detest the idea of "the smartest person in the room", because there's never such a thing. Good teams don't just pick one smartie and let them make all the decisions, they work as a team.
A fucking men.