@patrickrhone Okay, I’ll be the disagreeable one. 😉

First, I agree with your emphasis on it being a feed of blog posts and replies. Yep!

But:
> If it is missing anything, it is the wealth of perspectives and subject depth that comes from a large diverse pool of active users who are willing to post about a variety of topics.

I saw active monthly user numbers for micro.blog a week or two ago but I forget what they were. A few thousand I think. Beyond the people I follow I can only ever discover new people via the Discover feed. I have an interest in climate and the conflict in Gaza. When I do a search on the first the most recent post is 2023-10-24 and there just are very few that show up. When I search for Gaza, zero posts. When I search for Palestine 3 posts, only one from 2023.

So for someone like myself, you see, I can only guess that either no one is posting about Gaza and Palestine and very few about climate. Perhaps this is true. But I have no way of knowing. I know that I’ve posted quite often about those three topics. But as search in Discover only yields results from posts previously featured it’s incredibly limited. None of my posts about Gaza or Palestine have showed up which tells me none have been featured in the Discover feed. So I’m left to guess/conclude that there could be any number of people with these shared interestes but because the topics fall outside the safe zone of sanitized politeness I’ll never know.

Of course it’s true that I can and do find posts and writers on these topics outside of Micro.blog. For the many here that are frequent, perhaps mostly exclusive posters of other topics, non-political areas of interest, well, I’d guess they are very happy with the state of their timelines. And truely I’m happy for them.

But that said, it is a real shortcoming of Micro.blog that those of us that want to delve into these other areas are not able to because of how Discover, search, etc is set-up. But I would add that in the end I think this hurts Micro.blog because while those that want only the warm fuzzy timeline are happy, those that look for a fuller, more diverse expression of humanity are left to look elsewhere.

@manton