📝 June 2026 Blogroll: Share your blog posts!

[AetherAnne]

@Coyote

Not every blogger is necessarily expecting all their posts to get automatically broadcast to an aggregator, let alone writing with that broadened audience in mind. Meanwhile, if someone is browsing a site that encourages you to vote on what you see, a generic journaling post might look out of place. So in light of that, I’m inclined to point out that Bubbles is recontextualizing people’s posts as part of a competition that not all of them necessarily asked for.

Agreed. This is one of the things I really don’t like about Bubbles (and similar RSS aggregators); they should be opt-in* only. I’d be very irritated if I wrote a throwaway post with a throwaway title that was never intended to reach a mass audience, only to find that it has been reposted on a popular aggregator where everyone in the comments is having a good whinge about the title of a post that was never even supposed to reach their eyes.

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* Though I suppose hardcore RSS proponents would argue that by sheer dint of providing a syndicated feed in the first place, you’re already tacitly “opting in” to having your blog reposted on a third-party site… It’s one of the many reasons why I do not offer an RSS feed for my blog. I don’t care at all if a small number of people want to read my posts on their private RSS reader, but I’d really rather not have my blog featured on a big third-party aggregator without my knowledge or consent.