@belle I've had a chance to read through your post. I found myself disagreeing more than agreeing - which is fine, different perspectives are health. What I did take and should be considered more closely (especially that you're an early adopter and therefore a sneezer) by @manton is the overall feeling that you seem to have, which is that of frustration. Unfortunately, the frustration is across three parts: 1. Lack of community ownership. I feel there is something to be said about that part, although I don't see a clear answer. This note is not hosted on my microblog (hosted or otherwise), it's somewhere on the servers. I'm contributing to a community but have no ownership of that community. This point has come up before and I honestly don't know what the solution is. 2. Lack of agency. This is about contributing. You can't be open and closed at the same time. I actually choose not to contribute my time towards the Micro.blog platform specifically because I know it's not an open platform. It's a commercial enterprise. I contribute to Micro.blog by paying for it every month. For some that's not enough. Because obviously things take time to build, the lack of speed will frustrate some early adopters like yourself. I think this a valid gripe, but alas I also think that you need to curb your expectations. Maybe in a year's time with more people paying, it'll become viable to get an extra pair of hands, maybe even two? 3. Lack of Diversity. The truth is, by the very nature of Micro.blog's structure (ie you are writing for your blog that gets 'syndicated'), the type of content is less about what others want and more about what the writer themselves want. And that makes classifying harder, which has the advantage that echo chambers are harder to create. The information you're consuming however is captured in a haphazard manner, which some don't mind, while other will find frustrating. I'm getting to that point myself.