@pratik Oh, I’ve had a great experience here, like @jabel I love the community here, and i appreciate @manton ‘s taking the long view – but I think part of it is that when you know so much about something (in this case, coding and creating sites online), it is hard to see the barriers for those who don’t know those things.

Things that are basic to most people here, are difficult for me; and I had WordPress sites and am considered tech-savvy IRL. I’m the IT person at my house and at my workplace. Most of the people I live and work with, though, would be completely unable to start a blog on micro.blog; and, most of them also have Facebook or Twitter accounts.

It’s not that they’re not online; it’s that micro.blog is too hard for most people to use, and the support documents are cryptic to non-coders. (Go click on “help” on the sidebar to see what I mean. It takes you to the micro.blog Help Center. You’ll see a topic list full of technical things someone like me does not know how to do, and in many cases, I don’t even know what they mean. Or, go to the Help contents page, click on “first steps,” and ask someone who has never made their own site or used WordPress to tell you what they should do to set up a micro.blog account.)

So I could figure out how to use micro.blog, with caveats. Neither of my two blogs here looks the way I want them to look, because I don’t have the time to laboriously figure out how to change them. (Or, possibly, break them; which would be depressing.) But - I like it here, I like the values that @manton and @jean have about online communities and how to foster life-giving interactions, and so I want to be a part of this. But it wasn’t easy for me.