Can anyone recommend some?
Here’s one of my favourite examples.
At that point you can just go to the first entry and see if it’s something that’s of interest to you.
I also collected some 1000+ sites on https://theforest.link and I’d say a solid 80% are probably personal blogs.
So hopefully there’s at least a few of those firsts posts you’re talking about in there.
I foresee another function for RSS. I call it Really Social Sites, and what I do with it is more like a timeline. A timeline that you see at regular social media. My site offers it's own feed to the web, but it also has a reader-function where I follow all kinds of websites. So far nothing different. Except that I can only see short excerpts from the sites I follow. I do this on purpose, because I think it's important to visit the site. I think it's respectful, because people put effort in their sites, people want to know - at least a little bit - how many visitors they had, maybe also where these visitors came from. And from a user point of view, while visiting somebody's website you might stumble upon something unexpectedly nice. One might be compelled to leave a message for the site owner on some contact form after a good article. Etc.
It’s something I also do I’d say 70% of the time. Some sites are just too enjoyable to browse and I prefer to read there.
Others are not so great (bad typography and bad colors can make the reading experience very unpleasant) and I read on my RSS in those cases.
Which is why I think full content in rss feeds should be the way to go. It allows me to chose how to consume the content.
If you only serve excerpts I have no other option but to read on the site even if the reading experience is terrible.
Maybe the solution here is to have two feeds?
I cant bring myself to talk about much more than stuff i build or do in tech in mine. I'm too concerned with me saying something controversial and it causing me issues in the real world.
And sometimes even struggle to post. No one reads it so its fine though. I find it helps me parse out my thoughts.
I did go ahead and add mine to your list though.
I can't obviously comment on this since I don't know about your specific situation. My experience is that as long as you try to be honest and open to dialogue, online interactions are great. I had my blog since 2017 and I had nothing but enjoyable conversations with people via email.
And if you look a list of all entries, there's my "hello world" there as well.