Tired of social media?
Keep doom scrolling through addicting feeds?
Miss the days when the web was just about connecting with people and their thoughts or ideas?
We believe there’s an answer to that problem, and it’s called
No this isn’t another platform.
You don’t sign up here.
You just write what’s on your mind, respond to an idea, post a recipe, or share a photo. It’s blogs, but perhaps not in the way you would normally think of blogs.
It just takes three things to participate:
Starting a blog is actually a lot simpler than what you’re probably thinking. This doesn’t have to be some well polished highly viewed monetization machine, or even something professional or formal. It’s just a simple website where you can casually talk about…
Tired of social media?
Keep doom scrolling through addicting feeds?
Miss the days when the web was just about connecting with people and their thoughts or ideas?
We believe there’s an answer to that problem, and it’s called
No this isn’t another platform.
You don’t sign up here.
You just write what’s on your mind, respond to an idea, post a recipe, or share a photo. It’s blogs, but perhaps not in the way you would normally think of blogs.
It just takes three things to participate:
Starting a blog is actually a lot simpler than what you’re probably thinking. This doesn’t have to be some well polished highly viewed monetization machine, or even something professional or formal. It’s just a simple website where you can casually talk about whatever you want to talk about! It can be long, short, a list of small things, or just a quote. It should be how you talk with other people in your own life, or how you communicate with the outside world. It should be you on a page. Here’s a few places you can make a blog that are RSS enabled:
Easy Hosted Services
These are great if you are not quite a technical person and need everything to be simple and easy to use.
Self Hosted Frameworks
For the devs 🫡 Some of my favorite frameworks and tools for making a blog!
RSS is actually already familiar to you if you have ever subscribed to a newsletter. You put your email into someone’s website, and when they have updates, they send you emails to your inbox so you can stay in the loop. In the case of RSS, you have a dedicated app, called an RSS reader usually, and you can put in someone’s website into the app to subscribe. When they make a new post, just open your news reader app, and their posts will be retrieved and ready to read. Some reader apps even let you make folders and tags to organize blogs you are subscribed to, similar to how an email app lets you make folders to sort mail. Would highly recommend trying a few of the apps or services and seeing which works best!
This takes us to our final point: Feeds. You can probably get away with just the first two items and then sharing it with people you already know, but what about meeting or talking to people you don’t know? That’s where Feeds come in. The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you’re subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and sharing it! If your RSS reader supports OPML file exports and imports, perhaps you can share that file as well to make it easier to share your feeds.
Here’s an example Feeds Page which should help get the idea across!
The best part about blog feeds? It’s just an idea. There’s no central authority. There’s no platform. No massive tech giant trying to take your data. It’s just you, basic web standards, and the people you care about.
Where do I sign up? You don’t! Just make a blog, get an RSS reader, and share a feeds page.
How much does Blog Feeds cost? Nothing! Of course you can pay for premium plans for blogging platforms or readers, but there are plenty of free options out there.
Does this replace social media? Not necessarily! The way Blog Feeds operates doesn’t act like a drop in replacement. It’s a different style of interacting with people on the web. It’s slower, more personal, and has much different incentives. Everyone is different so choose what works best for you; we just ask you give Blog Feeds a shot! Some of us are using both in tandem, and thanks to the pace of Blogs we don’t find ourselves on social media as much as we used to be.
What about monetization? You certainly can try to find ways to monetize through platforms like Substack, it’s truly up to you. The key is building a network of people who want to talk together!
What about comments or dialogue? Most blogs have comments available if you wish to use them, or you could go even further on a technical level and incorporate platforms like BlueSky to have comments. Another approach is just letting people email you so you can discuss on a more personal level. Choose what fits you and your nearby community best!