How I find interesting blogs

Today an interesting question from Barry Hess appeared on my timeline.
He submitted his blog to several site/blog directories, but analyzing the traffic he found only a few hits coming from these sources.

My idea is that a very small amount of people are really looking for content in such directories, or at least this is not the way I find bloggers I like.

Personally, I discover new blogs in a very simple way:

1) Bloggers writing about other bloggers or responding to other bloggers;
2) Social communities like Mastdodon or Micro.blog;
3) Explore / discovery sections like in Bear, Scribbles and Micro.blog.