Ever since Google Reader shut down, I think the next generations of engineers and developers stopped using RSS feeds. I still use them to this day, relying on a local installation of yarr for my blog following needs.
In the meanwhile, Feedburner is dead, so I no longer track my subscribers (and I know it was always a somewhat noise number) and I've recently installed umami to track analytics and I was surprised when I learned that browsers no longer track the full referral URL for privacy reasons. So I can no longer find out where people link to my blog.
Given the demise of RSS feeds and this obscurity, how do the HNers with blogs find new readers? I assume Linkedin, X and other social networks, but I am finding you only reach the people who already know you. I think planets (websites that aggregate RSS feeds on a particular topic) are also kind of dead, from my point of view.
Additionally, if you don't use an RSS reader, how do you follow blogs of people who you find interesting?
jakeasmith•30m ago
As for your second question, I find most of my tech content here, Reddit, and (oddly) Instagram. I find The Almighty Algorithms to be a better source of interesting content than my own curated list of sites.