# Add support for OPML social blogrolls

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/add-support-for-opml-social-blogrolls/17196>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** writefreely\
**Created:** [April 18, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/add-support-for-opml-social-blogrolls/17196 "2025-04-18T22:21:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![talya](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/talya/32/3316_2.png) [@talya](https://discuss.write.as/u/talya)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/add-support-for-opml-social-blogrolls/17196/1 "2025-04-18T22:21:42Z")

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last year, there’s been a suggestion to turn RSS feeds into their own federated-social-media of sorts via OPML blogrolls:

> **[About blogrolls](https://opml.org/blogroll.opml)**
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> Blogrolls were a common feature in early websites.

simply put, this feature has one blog link to others with an OPML subscription list, which themselves refer to other blogs, etc etc in an expanding tree.  
here’s a deeper deep-dive into the topic:

> **[RSS blogrolls are a federated social network](https://alexsci.com/blog/blogroll-network/)**
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> Could a modern look at RSS feeds and blogrolls help the small-web much like the fediverse is revitalizing community in social networks?

the addition of blogroll support will go hand in hand with writefreely’s vision of an open blogging sphere, will expand upon its current ActivityPub federation capabilities, and will be good for discovery among users.  
not to mention that a few competitors already implemented this or something similar:  
[https://www.manton.org/2024/03/11/recommendations-and-blogrolls.html](https://www.manton.org/2024/03/11/recommendations-and-blogrolls.html)

> **[Recommendations – Ghost Developer Docs](https://ghost.org/docs/recommendations/)**
>
> Recommendations are a cross-promotion mechanism for all publishers, on any platform.