@Denny I don’t disagree on technicality that search and discoverability could/should be better. And I’m certain that is something @manton has and continues to think deeply about.

That said, I also know that the Discover timeline is hand curated mainly by one person (Hi, @jean!) and I won’t begin to fathom the complexity of choice she must go through to decide what goes there and what does not and why.

I do know she’s one of the few people that has a feed of every single post on Micro.blog and therefore must have to find the sips of water in that firehose that gives new users a very generalized sense of what’s available. (As you may know, when you first sign up and are not following anyone the Discover feed is your default timeline so I suspect it is they who are top of mind in those choices).

Perhaps the solution you seek would be as easy as the ability to see and browse through that firehose. Perhaps, for transparency’s sake it would be a good feature/ability to have.