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I felt it was time to cull my RSS feeds again – I last looked at them in June. There have been a number of instances where the sites, sadly, no longer exist or I found myself reading less and less posts. There's no point swiping to dismiss 95% of items in the hope there might be something of interest so those feeds are now gone from my reader.

I'm not sure if my tastes have changed, I've become less patient, or that certain bloggers and I have drifted apart this year. If it's the latter then that's fine, there should be no expectation for anyone to always write stuff that I'll enjoy. That's the beauty of the web: we all do our own things and will sometimes have coinciding interests. We drift in and out of each other's online lives as needed and there is no point in trying to force something when those interests no longer align. It doesn't make any of us bad people, just different.

This does, however, bring the (internet) age old problem of discovery back in to focus. How to find new interesting people, especially without using social media – although that is definitely a double-edged sword and one I'm not willing to wield.