Oh, you made that point – power into the users' hands to facilitate social change... – perfectly clear back then. At least for you and your friends (as far as I remember) that premise was a given, and the blocking of "sideshows" a natural consequence. To me, back then, that felt like contradicting the goal stated, but I understood that you and others had the hassle with running an instance and, gosh!, one really likes to come to the real work that one is interested in instead of being stuck in perpetual housekeeping... ;-) And yes, it was a an attempt to find out if social media could be used for change. I didn't share that optimisim (if that is the right word) back then, and I don't do now. But mostly because I don't think that social change (or societal change) can be achieved on a grassroot level at all. In my somber moments I think: "If you want to change society, change infrastructure, the rest is idle talk." Perhaps this attitude changes again one day. Cheers.