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At the beginning of the year, I wrote about switching from Feedly to Feedbin. I am still very happy with Feedbin and have subscribed to numerous blogs and other sites there — including my own.

A few days ago, something caught my eye: I had published a new post but hadn't seen it in Feedbin at all. Strange. Maybe I just overlooked it? That's easy to check. In the list of all subscriptions, I searched for my name and looked at the details of my feed:

Unlike what is shown in the screenshot here, it said that my last update in the feed was two years ago. Either time has flown by or something wasn't right with my feed.

They are back again, the blogrolls¹, the webrings², the personal websites, the new blogs and blogging events! And as if that weren't reason enough to clap your hands in delight, you also get to know many wonderful new people.

It wasn't that long ago that Mastodon was in the spotlight as a possible Twitter replacement. That didn't last long. Meta's Thread.net caused a stir for a while. During the last eXits, many users migrated to Bluesky.

This is understandable because coming from Twitter, the Bluesky interface feels familiar and intuitive. So-called starter packs that help find users to follow also added momentum.

You can argue about Bluesky – rightfully so – but many users are simply there. So it could be interesting to become active there too. Often this involves switching from one network to another – but it doesn't have to.

For years I used Feedly as my feed reader and was always satisfied with it. When I started to slowly leave Twitter (back then), I upgraded my subscription to be able to create Twitter lists in Feedly and follow certain accounts without having to access Twitter directly.

Twitter no longer exists, the APIs are turned off – let's not mention the new new owner.

A few basic rss reader functions remain for me that I don't want to go without:

• Sync: I want to be able to access the feeds from anywhere (Desktop / Mobile) and have them synchronized accordingly.
• Read-Later: I need some kind of function to bookmark posts. Because often I only go through my feeds once and mark everything I want to read later.
• Newsletters: It would still be great to be able to subscribe to newsletters and have them displayed as feed items.
• Interfaces: The icing on the cake would be interfaces outwards so that I can do things from the feed reader.