I'm new here, and I guess I made a splash by kinda shit testing you all. You responded quite well I'd like to explore more.

So the next question becomes what can we accomplish? I know I'm new, maybe great things have been done that I don't know about. But most of what I see is a small echo chamber. A small group of people with similar beliefs talking about the same stuff everyone else is. That's great, I enjoy that to, but then what?

How can what we do here actually improve each others lives? I see a few businesses advertised, ok we support friendly businesses but that must not be going well as I only see a couple dozen. I see a tool to contact others in my area, but it's only for producers and maybe I'll do that. However looking at it closely there's very few near me who are active. I could go for some commerce with other gulchers but there isn't much local so it isn't worth $20/mo.

So, what would you like to actually do? How can I help short of blindly throwing money at the site?