https://fedifollow.glitch.me/

For following my WordPress website from the Fediverse: https://fedifollow.glitch.me/follow?account=%40chrisaldrich%40boffosocko.com

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>codefoodpixelsLuke Bonaccorsi</span> in Luke Bonaccorsi: "Because sharing follow links i…" - Indieweb.Social (<time class='dt-published'>12/22/2022 11:41:16</time>)</cite></small>

I have so many ideas about this. The first one being that it's awesome.

While WordPress is about websites, it's also got a lot of pieces of social media sites hiding under the hood and blogrolls are generally precursors of the following/followed piece.

Blogrolls were traditionally stuck on a small widget, but I think they now deserve their own full pages. I'd love to have one with a list of all the people I follow (subscribe to) as well as a similar one with those who follow me (and this could be implemented with webmention receipts of others who have me on their blogroll). I've got versions/mock ups of these pages on my own site already as examples.

Next up is something to make these easier to use and import. I'd love a bookmarklet or a browser extension that I could use one click with to have the person's page imported into my collection of links that parses the page (perhaps the h-card or meta data) and pulls all the data into the link database.

I always loved the fact that the original generated OPML files (even by category) so that I could dump the list of data from my own site into a feed reader and just go. Keeping this would be awesome, but the original hasn't been updated in so long it doesn't use the updated OPML spec

If such a currated list is able to be maintained on my site it would also be cool if I could export it in such a way (similar to OPML) as to dovetail it with social readers like Aperture, Yarns, or other Microsub servers to easily transport or mirror the data there.

Here are some related thoughts: https://boffosocko.com/2017/11/10/a-following-page/

I'm happy to chat about other useful/related features relating to this any time!