I missed this project by Robert Birming in previous years, excited to join this year! From his page:
"I can hardly believe it’s been more than two years since I published Junited: a blog love letter. Feels like yesterday. I guess that’s what happens with things you love.
The Junited idea is simple, and basically what many bloggers already do: sharing others’ posts. No challenge, no pressure, just the joy of sharing.
It would be wonderful if 2026 became the year with the most participants so far, which would also mean the most blog love spread around.
If you want your blog listed below, reach out to me with a link to your Junited page and the name you’d like displayed.
I hope to see you on the list and to discover many great posts and bloggers along the way. Happy blogging and sharing!"
I made my tiny page here and just submitted it to him. I’m going to aim for one link a day.
I loved doing this last year, it’s so cool to see that there are many more people joining this time around! My list so far is here: https://kedara.eu/junited2026/
I’m trying not to look at the lists of the other participants until the end of the month, because I need that time to stay up to date on my feeds for my own list, haha. But I do go through the blogs of everyone who joined occasionally, to see if there’s anything recent that resonates and that I’d like to share. So be warned!
The premise of a dedicated month for linking to other bloggers is kinda funny to me because from where I’m standing, that’s like having a dedicated month for breathing, but if it gets people linking more then that’s a good thing in my book.
I understand why you’d think of it that way. I try to always sprinkle in some links, but for me, this is a more dedicated effort to highlight folks I love reading and discover some new people in the process. I love the idea of adding a link daily for a month, but it takes quite a bit of time, so doing that every month would take too much from other projects and interests. Lastly, I like that it’s a community activity, just like the Indieweb Carnival and other such things. For the Carnival example, I can also write posts without prompts; but I think it’s nice to participate in these group activities to feel a bit more connected to other web weavers and to be inspired by them.
Just my 2 cents, it’s just a bit of fun and you’re free to join or not.
A few people have ended up discovering my blog because I participated (and was added to the main link list in the original post). The only links to me that I’ve come across were from bloggers that I linked to on my page who found me.
Not that it’s about reciprocity, but I think people are naturally curious about who is reading/linking to them and are more likely to spend time on your blog and therefore more likely to find something interesting you’ve written to link
@Coyote I’m in the same boat as kedara - I always add links to my blog posts, but I don’t post that often so some of my blog links fall through the cracks. With this project I have a place to add my links immediately after reading in a place others are likely to find them between individual bi-monthly-ish blog posts. And I hope it gets bloggers not in the practice of linking to build the habit!
