It helps to remember that the current business model that dominates the social internet is about 15 years old. That’s not long. We can re/imagine other ways of connecting.

@ubiquity75 the platform looks very good to me. The hard part is getting started so that you can join discussions and share perspectives with large enough groups of people sharing your interests.

Maybe having different single-click get-started settings would help - such as most-twitter-like-look& feel. ?