In the era of LLMs your personal blog matters more

In general, I'd say it's always wise to follow individual people whose knowledge and expertise you know and trust rather than browse a platform. HN is one of the few exceptions I make, because I'm very likely to find quality people/content that I just wouldn't have otherwise. So yeah, blogs are great if you choose wisely.

Btw this was the cool thing about blogrolls -- if I trust someone's opinion, I'll likely trust the people they trust. You can replace "trust" with "be interested in".