The few "awesome" (and "are we X yet") lists I've seen/contributed to were terrible; they have a very low barrier to entrance, and a very high barrier to exit - which made them nothing more than landfills, essentially. I think the valuable lists are personal ones.
I've had pretty good experiences with "awesome lists", usually if the topic is language or framework and I just want a concise list of mature things related to topic. Other examples I've personally enjoyed:
How does one get an invite to join though? The suggestion seems to be to scroll through a list of hundreds of online handles to see if you know someone by their pseudonym, and assumes you can reach them out of band, which is obviously not going to work for the vast majority of people.
https://news.ycombinator.com