Indeed Atom is a better standard than RSS for feeds.

Badly apparently, looks like it makes for prose people avoid. Now the thing is... with the widespread suspicion, some people might be wrongfully flagged as using LLM to write their posts.

I like this idea. It'd be nice if more websites felt like little town squares.

Good point indeed, need to review my own feed next time I get the chance.

It's not complicated, and a good thing to do.

We collectively should reach out more to blog authors indeed. Not for kudos but to feed each other through conversations. That's how we collectively learn and improve.

The stats are clear there. Beside in term of experience, RSS feeds are so superior to newsletters... I wish more bloggers would give up on the newsletter focus. There's also a good point in this post: as soon as you have a newsletter you will sit on a database of email addresses, it's definitely a liability.

Also, it's likely a pessimistic estimate... Indeed, it's mostly based on a list from Kagi, which likely doesn't list many sites which would qualify.

Looks like an interesting tool to check you're doing "everything right" on your blog. That said, it looks like quite a few hoops to jump through. I wish there'd be a way to make all this a bit easier.

Looks like a nice tool to help people to get into RSS.

Get out and write indeed. You can fiddle with the tools later.

Wondering where Markdown is coming from and how it became such a success? The piece helps answer those questions.

These extensions look really neat for discovering Mastodon and RSS feed. I think I'll check them out.

This would probably be a good thing indeed. We'll see of the web culture will evolve next.

This is nice to see the energy still bubbling in the traditional web. It's still there, next to the big mall pushed by search engines. You just need to know where to look and it's not that hard.

A bit cynical at times, but shows tricks to improve the writing and style of blog posts. If I ever find the time to write something sizeable again I guess I'll try some of them.

Wow, the atmosphere looks fairly toxic at Automattic right now. It felt like it was just about the trademark dispute but clearly the craziness is running much deeper. This is concerning for WordPress future I think.

Definitely this. Get the content you like known, send appreciation messages to the authors. This should keep the moribund web alive.

Lots of ideas indeed. Having your own website gives so much freedom in what you can do there.

Good explanation of what RSS is, where its weaknesses and strengths are.