BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs

Weird. I love a good link list, but most links I clicked were just regular portfolio websites, not digital gardens in the gardens vs. streams[1] sense.<p>Does the creator not know what a digital garden is?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;gardens-and-streams-wikis-blogs-and-ui-popup-indie-web-camp-session-2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;gardens-and-streams-wikis-blogs-...</a>

As much as I love the idea, I can&#x27;t help but see some irony in an index of sites outside the Big Tech walled gardens being hosted on a major walled garden.

Kagi also has an occasionally delightful small web index: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kagi.com&#x2F;small-web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kagi.com&#x2F;small-web</a>. It’s nicely integrated into their search results too.

Look at the front page of HN - see my project randomly. Thank you for sharing! The goal with this site is precisely that, share people&#x27;s digital gardens.<p>If you have a site to add, please open a GitHub issue: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blogscroll&#x2F;blogscroll&#x2F;issues&#x2F;new?assignees=dend&amp;labels=enhancement&amp;template=suggest-new-site.md&amp;title=%5BSITE+REQUEST%5D">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blogscroll&#x2F;blogscroll&#x2F;issues&#x2F;new?assignee...</a><p>If your site is self-hosted (that is, not on medium.com or Substack or the likes, or if it is - has a custom domain), I&#x27;d be happy to add it. My goal for this year is to massively grow the list.

The Internet has a big discoverability problem now that search has a big advertising conflict of interests. The only way to find web &quot;human&quot; content is to rely on the curation of other humans.<p>Funny enough mining those links is what made Google the giant it is now. But this time around we will not be fooled by the next &quot;don&#x27;t be evil&quot; tech giant :D

Love the idea, but I’m not sure how well it will scale. I’ve seen similar lists before and even went out of my way to include my blog there, only to never find that page again.<p>That said, I’m loving this renewed interest in building our own little corners on the internet. I have mine[1] too.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rednafi.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rednafi.com</a>

Very cool! As someone else mentioned already, OPML export would be cool, especially if it’s per category (personal, design&#x2F;ux, etc.)<p>I also curate a list of blogs as part of my blog discovery&#x2F;search engine&#x2F;reader project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minifeed.net&#x2F;blogs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minifeed.net&#x2F;blogs</a>

Not a garden but I also curtate links that I find interesting here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andreinc.net&#x2F;links&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andreinc.net&#x2F;links&#x2F;</a><p>And maintain an active blogroll with blogs I follow:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andreinc.net&#x2F;blogroll" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andreinc.net&#x2F;blogroll</a>

Funny how we have gone back to web directories

cool, a garden index! love that they included an RSS feed too (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogscroll.com&#x2F;index.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogscroll.com&#x2F;index.xml</a>) - i&#x27;m sticking that in my feed reader immediately. it sounds nice to have a few random new digital garden sites to peruse once in awhile.

When reading the title I thought of &quot;walled gardens,&quot; as in collaborative sites with heavy moderation&#x2F;curation, but a lot of these seem to be just personal sites with careful attention to aesthetics, function, and content. And how can I trust any list like that which doesn&#x27;t include gwern.net?

Really nice, but you could consider to move away from Big Tech altogether; there are alternatives to GitHub.

Cool but this will grow unworkable as the number of entries increases and will require some sort of filtering &#x2F; searching.<p>Even pure signal can be overwhelming these days when so much good stuff exists.<p>Which brings us to the (as far as I know unsolved) question of supporting large scale discovery of the web without drifting into enshittification.<p>Some sort of decentralized index that will be distributed in a torrent-like manner might work but that requires curation too: Who and with what criteria can add an entry etc.<p>Bottom line is that the walled gardens did not exist, they <i>evolved</i> because the original web was missing critical components of usability. They exploited a vacuum.<p>To fill the vacuum with something more benevolent we need to go back and solve these problems. The rest will be history.

How outside the &quot;Big Tech&quot; gardens is blogging on Github ?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.microsoft.com&#x2F;announcement&#x2F;microsoft-acquires-github&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.microsoft.com&#x2F;announcement&#x2F;microsoft-acquires-g...</a><p>My definition of property is more restricted : either having hosting somewhere as independent as possible or self-hosting on Raspberry Pi e.g.<p>My two cents

I&#x27;ve thought about this problem before and built Recess as one way to approach this and related &quot;issues&quot;.<p>It never got traction so I dropped it but someone might be interested in the ideas behind it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yakkomajuri&#x2F;recess">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yakkomajuri&#x2F;recess</a>

These days, I prefer smaller websites more and more. But I do like Substack because they are sort of like a personal website, since there are very few social features and generally you can just visit one person&#x27;s Substack without seeing ANY content from anywhere else.

Bring back the webrings!

&quot;walled&quot; is too nice for what Big Tech is actually doing.<p>What they are doing is literaly digital jails &quot;for you own security........&quot;

Isn&#x27;t GitHub a &quot;Big Tech&quot; walled garden?

Some are examples of good design ideas.

Yeah but can any of them write well?