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I forgot that I added site-level webmention notifications to my endpoint rather than just for posts. This was the first one since making that change.

I had originally designated today as my annual reminder to keep choosing "The Web You Want" because that's when I first read, and remarked upon, Brent's post – because timezones.

I decided to move it to October 29th, the date of the post, in 2021 so now have two reminders in 'On This Day'.

In reality, I am reminded every day I use the site, every day I directly read the blogs of others rather than via a social feed.

Choosing the web you want is a constant, conscious decision – one I'm glad I make every day.

I'm back up to subscribing to 72 feeds in /reader. That might not sound like a lot but it's quite a jump when you consider I'd culled the list to about 20 when I had my mental health induced blogging break last year.

It's taken almost a year to add ¹ those 50 feeds. I was determined that doing so would be a very deliberate and organic process so as not to reintroduce overwhelm. This was also why I only had /reader polling for new items once every 6 hours.

Over time I have regained the capacity to consume more reflected in the additions and that I also frequently trigger manual refreshes within those 6 hour intervals. I am still, however, very careful about what I add.

Certain bloggers are 'connectors' – they connect people to each other and to information. The likes of Patrick, Bix, Tracy, and others, read wider and deeper than I could ever hope so a lot of interesting information finds its way to me without the need to overload /reader. Of course, the organic nature of my feed management means that some blogs linked to by the connectors will end up in my subscriptions. It's just a question of being sensible.