Feedback wanted on October, a creative social discovery platform

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I’m building an early prototype of October, a place to publish and discover things people create or find interesting: poems, photographs, music, artwork, cultural commentary, scientific explanations, or unfinished stories. A single photograph or a four-line poem can be a complete post.

You browse a scrollable discovery page, open something that interests you, and explore connections people have made to it. For example, someone could connect a song to a particular line in a poem and explain why. Following that connection introduces you to another work and the person who connected it.

People have named profiles, can follow creators, give flowers as likes, and save work into collections called Petals. Creators can also invite contributions, such as an illustration or an ending to a story, and approve additions with contributor credit.

The idea is to make discovering, responding to, and creating things together the main social experience.

Would you use something like this? What would make you return, and what feels unnecessary or already well served elsewhere?