I think I never subscribed to as many RSS feeds from small blogs as I did recently since I got myself my own #microsub reader integrated into my blog engine powered by #indiekit

it’s just very comfortable to use, you read the blog post and you can reply, like or repost right from the integrated Reader view (inspired by Monocle)

it makes me read more and subscribe to more people’s blogs, which from my weekend exploration is a huge world to explore… there are so many interesting people writing about all kinds of things or even just about their own daily life: it’s a level of “sharing” that “social media” as we know it or as we have been experiencing it, cannot reproduce or emulate.

with blogs you need the intent to subscribe, after a while you eagerly wait for the next post about X or Y because you know it will come with perspectives or experience from the people directly impacted or living through it.

with blogs you have that calmness, no ads, beautiful design, some have really nice custom features that truly makes me want to improve my own blog.

perhaps I’m just getting old… I was there when it all started early 2000’s and when RSS allowed us to briefly experience and experiment the “social web” without walled gardens and corporate algorithms.

26 years later I feel that the blog revival has never been so strong and that’s very encouraging for the future of the web.