Last week, I updated my blogroll to include everyone in my RSS feed reader. While I read a lot of topical blogs and newsletters, I also follow a goodly number of interesting people I don’t know as well as acquaintances. I didn’t include these personal blogs on my blogroll before, but decided it was time to add them.

After starting the process of pulling my website off of Google , I declared myself all-in on people; expanding my blogroll is part of that process. I used to think of blogrolls as for people I knew IRL, but I’ve come around on it. Hence, my blogroll is full of “Internet strangers.” (It’s still not representative of everyone I follow since I follow a lot of people through micro.blog instead of RSS, but one step at a time.)

This post is my contribution to the November 2023 IndieWeb Blog Carnival , organized by Alex Sirac on the theme of community and belonging .

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