great post, @garciabuxton! That’s such a tough one to try and pick apart and understand. I was drawn to micro.blog for the indie blogging aspect, and found myself pleasantly surprised by the company. Maybe though, now the platform is well-established, people are looking at it in terms of tone and “tribe” before the blogging aspect. Though there are many pockets of diversity here, you do have to dig for them a bit. But I guess by nature of being diverse, those pockets do tend to get diluted/lost/among the more common sorts of discussions, that sound like they didn’t appeal much to your friend.