I've been messing with and collecting stuff like this for many years. Some links:

- On building kind, sustainable software: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/kind-software/

- Example projects (toys instead of blogs): https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/projects-and-apps-i-built-f...

- Wishlist: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/things-to-support-my-own-we...

- List of places to find indie content (something I used for my weekly newsletter): https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/places-to-find-indie-web-co...

Nowadays my current approach is:

1) meeting folks via Say Hi (unoffice hours)

2) keeping a separate RSS feed in NetNewsWire called People - this feed contains only the people I've met online or in person

EDIT: I almost forgot, but my partner wrote a cool intro to Indieweb for less techie folks: https://newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handmade-internet-is-ma...

It includes interviews with some of the people you might know from here :)

That is great. I didn't know I needed this.

After browsing for a few minutes I found that it really needs to have some kind of filter mechanism. For example, on old.reddit.com each post has its individual feed, while on blogspot you have both RSS and Atom feed.

My experience to a T.

The "calm tech" concept works really well with the fediverse identities because it's such a niche concept that at the end of a day of browsing you'll get a handful of entries, but for something as ubiquitous as RSS you get a ton of useless feeds that are just. But I really, really like the basic idea, I'll see if I can apply it to the things I'm building. :)

It's surprising that it took this long for such a simple extension to appear. What a brilliant way to passively crawl high-signal content

This is excellent UX for feed discovery. I always found the feed subscription thing distracting- usually I am reading blogs to solve a problem or research and not collect/socialize. That is something I am in the mood for later.

Source post: https://indieweb.social/@robalex/115675680018007724

ironically, the blog lacks a rel=me link that would make streetpass work on it :)

Surely the blog post itself comes before the social post linking to the blog post. The blog post is the source.

Obviously;

"Eugene" [1] boosted the post, which is how it gained attention i believe. That's what i meant with "source" ;-)

[1] https://mastodon.social/@Gargron