--- author: email: mail@petermolnar.net image: https://petermolnar.net/favicon.jpg name: Peter Molnar url: https://petermolnar.net copies: - http://web.archive.org/web/20190624130012/https://petermolnar.net/re-building-a-blogroll-in-2017/ in-reply-to: http://altplatform.org/2017/06/20/building-a-blogroll-in-2017/ lang: en published: '2017-06-22T09:30:00+00:00' tags: - internet - indieweb --- Richard: Blogroll, as name is mostly dead - nowadays you probably want to call it `following`. If you think about it, it's the same thing, the difference is that `following` is more common within silos[^1]. I'm thinking of displaying all my publicly followed entities - let it be blogs, Flickr accounts, Twitter handles, or indie websites - on a page, which would resemble an oldschool `blogroll` but would make more sense in 2017, in my opinion. Sidenote: Dave is misunderstanding[^2] approaches and philosophy about IndieWeb[^3] regarding RSS: we encourage to build sites with microformats[^4], so you don't need to maintain a separate file and format, but if you want to, sure, go ahead. However, in addition to a website itself, one would need an RSS, an Atom, and a JSON feed just to be backwards compatible and forward thinking - whereas just applying a few CSS classes to the relevant HTML elements could replace all the hassle. That is the reason why RSS - or anything similar - is not recommended within the indieweb community, but many of us still using them. [^1]: [^2]: [^3]: [^4]: