Websites can programmatically define a blogroll using OPML. These blogrolls help people who read your blog discover other websites you think are worth promoting. A diagram showing how an OPML blogroll can link to RSS feeds, which in turn can each link to another OPML blogroll, and so-on This project maps connections between websites, web feeds (RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds), and OPML blogrolls. The size and interconnectedness of the network can be tracked over time. Exploring the network can help you discover new websites recommended by bloggers you already follow.

A decentralized discovery network where websites promote each other through intentional, trust-based links.

It feels like all the cool websites from the late 2000s are gone. But maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it is us who vanished.

There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion. It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Even if you do not particularly care for becoming the next big thing, it’s still discouraging to put work into a website and get next to no traffic beyond the usual bots.

Could a modern look at RSS feeds and blogrolls help the small-web much like the fediverse is revitalizing community in social networks?