I may have bitten off more than I can chew. Looking to broaden my reading beyond the same old sites, I went ahead and imported Maya’s OPML file of her wonderful blogroll into my feed aggregator. After a day I have nearly 8,000 unread posts. With such a huge number, I don’t really feel any pressure to actually read or even skim all of them. Basically I plan to dip in now and then, get a sense of each site/blog/feed and whittle the list down to something more manageable over time.
Side note: This OPML file had over 300 feeds in it, going way over the free limits of Feedly. I’ve been meaning to move away from Feedly for a while. Even if I take them at their word about their recent AI-assisted protest tracking feature, it feels much more targeted at the enterprise market rather than personal website readers and writers. I came upon FreshRSS and, bravely resisting the temptation to install it on my own server, created a free account on FLOSS Feeds, which seems so far to suit my needs.