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The lack of central discovery is one of the main appeals of blogs imho. I don't want to discover blogs via a directory. I want to discover them through links fr
by adrianN 5y ago
The lack of central discovery is one of the main appeals of blogs imho. I don't want to discover blogs via a directory. I want to discover them through links from blogs I already read or recommendations from friends.
I think blogs started dieing when they optimized for maximizing their audience instead of being locations where people write about stuff that interests them without an expectation of "making it".
- eddieroger 5y agoI actually think I would like a directory, because I fear the link-only propagation method would lead to echo chambers. But then how do you have a trustworthy directory, and how does it not also become an echo chamber. Reddit could almost be that, but clearly they don't have a handle on being not-an-echo-chamber yet.
- kixiQu 5y agoHandmade directories, like blogrolls, are a sweet spot IME: I keep mine at https://maya.land/blogroll.opml https://maya.land/blogroll.opml (human or machine-readable) and I've found a huge portion of what's on it via other people's recommendations.
- sweuder 5y agoAnd now I'm perusing your recommendations, cheers!
- kixiQu 5y agoMy whole site was inspired by https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ and https://href.cool/ https://href.cool/ , so while not everything they link to has an associated feed, I gotta shout them out as worth a look. :)