[re]

> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and sharing it! If your RSS reader supports OPML file exports and imports, perhaps you can share that file as well to make it easier to share your feeds.

This is usually called a "blogroll", which has the advantage of being much less ambiguous/overloaded than "feeds".

[geerlingguy]

And even better, there used to be a concept of "pingback", back before it was just abused by spammers, where you could connect blog posts together (the OG "react" medium) through a ping mechanism that was at least in Wordpress, not sure about other platforms.

But I found a ton of great blogs just scanning through other people's blogrolls.

[soapdog]

WebMentions are the evolutions of pingbacks and they're a bit more powerful.

https://indieweb.org/Webmention

[riffraff]

An interesting development of modern blogging is you can integrate the fediverse pretty easily, e.g. WordPress can trivially publish ActivityPub and you can receive replies, likes, and boosts from mastodon et al.

I Imagine the risk of spam is the same as for pingbacks, but at the moment this doesn't seem to be the case yet.

[onli]

WordPress still has those, or are they disabled by now for new blogs? I get them from WordPress blogs sometimes instead of the nicer trackbacks, same thing without xmlrpc. Webmentions are an orthogonal newer system, basically incompatible trackbacks.

Serendipity implements all three now, so there are definitely still blog engines that support these mechanisms.

[hopelite]

New internet rule: When the name of a service/software is a common word in any language that already has a meaning, we must escape it if the context is lacking that would indicate it’s title property.

Examples: /Serendipity, /Sheets, /News /Numbers, /Files, /Drive, /Translate, /Play, etc.

Exceptions: If the context is clear, i.e., in a text talking about Google assets where News, Sheets, Drive, Play, are mentioned; or one prefixes the context with “The software Serendipity…”.

We should not assume everyone in the world knows every single title of every single software and service.

[onli]

Well, context. We are talking CMS or blog engines, and "blogengine Serendipity" does find it as first at first place, so does "cms serendipity". But for the log, I was talking about https://docs.s9y.org/.

[simonjgreen]

My recollection from that era is that sadly it was immediately abused

[p5v]

We have a very similar feature on https://feedle.world. Every search has its own dedicated RSS feed that can new followed directly, as well as an iframe that can be embedded on other people’s websites. This way, anyone can build accidental blogrolls, based o topics of interest.

P.S. for people whore not really into RSS, we are also Beta testing the option to subscribe to searches and get results in email digests. Same idea, but you don’t need to bother finding an RSS reader.

[soapdog]

I made two webextensions that can discover blogrolls:

https://andregarzia.com/2024/05/feed-and-blogrolls-discovery...

Also https://blogcat.org has the same feature but is a full blog reader.

It is cool to surface blogrolls like that.

[samesense]

I had a very similar idea. I’m glad someone implemented it.