@patrickrhone I’ve always considered Micro.blog as an enhanced feed reader with the added benefit of having in-line comments. The timeline is basically whom you choose to follow and the replies can be customized in two ways - mutual follows and all replies of people you follow. But the Discover section is curated and so naturally, reflects the values (or bias) of the curator (Jean). But what if the Discover page was just tools for people to find other people/posts? You can search by emoji, categories, location, or language; much like having a custom feed of hashtags you follow on Mastodon or curated feeds on BlueSky.

I dunno how the page will look like and whether it will be dynamic or not but then it lets Micro.blog step away from advocating a certain vibe and let bloggers create their own vibe/community. I might not follow someone who only blogs about soccer but I might pin them on the Discover page to check out if I want sports news. Or a tag cloud of categories people are using on their posts. Click one and you see a series of posts categorized as such by the bloggers. Of course, this is just a prelim thought immediately after reading your post and @manton’s “News” thread.