Ah, sorry you're feeling downhearted. I guess many of the things you are trying to do take a long time to gain traction, and you produce a lot of them very quickly.

I have tried one or two things - I was specially interested in downloading my posts, but at the time I tried, it didn't quite work for me. The post downloader seemed to get to almost the very end, maybe even on a second and third try, the penultimate post, and then crash. I never got my posts.

It could be my set up, it could be user error, and is quite likely to be either and both of those. Which brings me to the next thing I struggle with: I have limited time to explore these tools, either trying to get the ones that attract me to work for me, or understand the use and application of the others and try them out.

I accept it's me, not you.

A minor thing, and again, it's me not you, but I find the design and colour palette of the tools very old-fashioned, very nineties, and when I first saw them, that put me off a lot.

Separately, I'm with you on the peakd thing. I tend not to vote for any proposals by third parties (peakd, actifit, ecency) which should have a business plan and proper investment if they are a viable business idea. Sometimes it's a little hard to assess and I'll give the benefit of the doubt, but some of these actors have been around for years and I'm not sure why they are continuing to put proposals and be funded. We never hear a business case.

We have our fair share of complainers and occasionally they provide some entertainment, but we also have a lot of people who are just doing the best they can with what they have available to them.

Happy to have a conversation.

Edit: most recently tried the curated feed tool sponsored by friendlymoose and donated a small contribution to costs. I found some new posts which was good, but I struggled to see how I could use it on a larger scale. Maybe I was missing the point(s). Thinking about it, though, maybe I should write a post when I try something, good or bad.