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I always have a hard time understanding that 'gen' thing. I mean, for me people are people. They're not clones of one another that are expected to do/want/wear/like/dislike the same things because they were born around the same year.
But maybe you're 100% right, that's a generational thing, well that would be so for everybody else but yourself since you somehow managed to escape that strict categorisation of behaviours and preferences by sitting between two gens. Suppose your assumption is correct, wouldn't it still be much simpler to experiment writing shorter texts or write them on another medium that would be more suited to long form, to say hoping to find more 'exceptions to the rule', aka more people like yourself, to start having interesting discussions?
Just sayin' ;)
Gen thing is pretty simple. People from that particular gen get used to doing things in a way that is famous in their gen. They see what the other people are doing in their age and copy them to feel more inclusive.
PCs were famous and trendy in previous generation. Now it's mobile phones. This is why we see gen z not being able to operate PC like their phones and previous gen not being able to do the vice versa. Pretty simple concept imo.
Coming to second part of your message, yes I'm trying to be in on these long form media and this is why I started to post on Lemmy lot recently. But also I have feeling there are people like me who could match my enthusiasm who are worth finding and for the rest of the people I'll try to send smaller texts as many have advised here 👍