Requests for follow creators

I have two proposals relating to the relatively new follow creators feature in edge.

The first is that I would like to see support for following creators on a wider range of platforms (e.g. Twitter, Twitch, Odysee, Instagram, Patreon, etc). I realize this is a bit of a grand proposal and might take longer to implement as different sites have different content types and may display those types differently, but I think this is doable and would improve the overall usability of the feature.

The second is a more practical request aimed at ease of access. I don't believe that Following and Recent posts ought to be accessed from a submenu within the collections menu, I don't quite understand why this is where they ended up. Rather, I think that Recent posts should have a spot on the sidebar or some kind of integration with the new tab feed.

As a bonus, to build off the first idea it would be great if when following the same creator on multiple platforms all their recent posts are viewable in one spot accessible from the Following menu (this would reduce having a bunch of "duplicates" bloating the list). I add this as a bonus as it necessarily requires the first proposal as a prerequisite and because I'm not certain of its feasibility, since I imagine it would be difficult or impossible to correlate accounts of small, unverified creators (it also appears in my experience that creators of a certain size are not followable on YouTube at the moment).

I am curious to hear thoughts on this, if there are any, as I realize this might not be as high-priority to many users as more long-standing requests.