it would be nice if substack had rss too
Curated list of personal blogs
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#52I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
Interesting, I came to post the same thing.
It's a shame, semi-permanent communication now represents an attack surface for randos hoping for their free-floating rage to find a surface upon which it might condense. In a sense, this provides little benefit to you except as an outlet and perhaps as a way to exercise writing skills, learning about a blogging platform, perhaps SEO (or not!), and so forth, but now the possible benefits are outweighed by the potential negatives.
The future looks like a lot of people performing the "grey rock" method. It's a pity, but that's the system as it punishes and rewards today.
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#53For folks interested in this space, there's a few other resources of which I'm a fan.
First, there's Micro.blog (https://micro.blog/). They can host a blog for you, or you can publish to their service for free using your own blog by pointing Micro.blog at your RSS feed (I do the latter). Think blogging but with a social element, facilitating both interaction and content discovery.
Second, there's the IndieWeb movement more broadly (https://indieweb.org/), which advocates for a whole ecosystem of distributed, open technologies for enriching the blogging ecosystem and encouraging interoperability.
Third, believe it or not, webrings live on! The indiewebring (https://indieweb.org/indiewebring), for example, is a fun way to find additional bloggers out there.
As you can tell, I'm a fan of blogging and the IndieWeb movement... :)
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#54I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
Why do you want to blog? If you're just doing it because you want to connect with people with shared interests, do whatever you want and see how it goes. Doing it for exposure or to get jobs is an entirely different story.
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#55By any chance, could we add a "language" tag, so that blogs that are not in English can be added?
I'm empathetic with that sentiment (I mainly write in Japanese), but the HN-based scoring wouldn't work with the HN-based scoring. I'd rather have a separate list for each language, based on some other scoring say, # of tweets.
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#56Let's also bring back webring ...
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you want is RSS, but you don't need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there's an 'add content' button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the 'reader mode' content without navigating to the site directly. [Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy us…
I think it’s similar to Feedly but I’m a fan of feedbin.com And for an iOS/Mac client I _highly_ recommend “Reeder”. [0] Have used both for years now. [0] https://reederapp.com
https://www.newsblur.com representin'
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#58Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…
In the Ancient Times there were a couple of different approaches to something similar to what you are asking for.
On the one side, for many years that was what people considered their "home page": you'd use a "Portal" like Yahoo! or MSN.com and they'd support all sorts of customization, including blocks for RSS feeds you'd give it. It's hard to imagine today's super-curated and overly news-obsessed Yahoo! or MSN.com being truly customizable and allowing you to pick and choose RSS feeds over media conglomerate content, but Yahoo! has fallen quite far from its peak and MSN.com and others were always flirting with the media conglomerates over user interests.
The other thing that existed in the Ancient Times that even fewer remember today was that HP believed RSS feeds actually could herald the "personal morning newspaper era" and that it would be great for printer and ink sales so they had an RSS reader for years that you'd give it a list of RSS feeds and a print schedule and it would happily have your "morning newspaper" printed and waiting for you.
It was an interesting idea, though I still don't think the waste of paper/ink on that was necessarily the best idea for the planet, but there was some romance to the concept of a "personalized morning newspaper".
Most e-readers have an RSS app or three, some with strong offline support. You might be able to get what you want from the right app.
I've also seen some interesting DIY projects (mostly here on HN) of people taking big e-ink displays and building ambient personal news surfaces. Nothing productized yet, but very cool to see people DIY exploring the "magic mirror" spaces for non-interactive "here's a glance at stuff you care about" displays.
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#59I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
As someone who would like to blog but doesn't, because I don't put in the effort:
> I am afraid to blog.
Don't be.
> I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others.
Says who? Let others be the judge.
> My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble.
This one is tricky but its easy: be careful with humor as that tends to be a source of social faux pas. Steer clear from politics. Stay on topic.
example: I was reading a blog about Linux desktop critique which devolved into a stupid rant about RMS and woke politics. Hard fail on the authors part.
> One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
Many people throughout history have wrote many things under anonymous pen names. It's fine.
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#60What is the general etiquette here at hn for submitting a personal blog post?
Assuming the content is relatively novel or fresh and possibly niche (tech related) for example.
I hate spam, so I hesitate to submit anything here. Perhaps it’s the fear of critique that induces hesitation (for me personally).
Is there a general rule of thumb or guideline?