[crakhamster01]

+1 to this! If it doesn't exist already, what would it look like?

The simple solution could be another search index that hasn't been commoditized like Google has, but I wonder if a manual curation approach might lead to higher quality? Something along the lines of a weekly digest of personal sites that are interesting/unique/fun. Process could look like:

  1. Users submit their personal sites for review, accompanied by some blurb/tags. Essentially something to make the cost of submission > 0.

  2. Site admin reviews submissions once a week and either select their top X favorite, or just remove any low quality/slop submissions and shares the rest.

I suppose this approach depends on the judgement of whoever does the curating, but I feel like that's not necessarily a worse alternative to the opaque algorithms we deal with today.

[reitoei]

Definitely some level of human curation... that's what made del.icio.us so good IMHO. You knew the links posted had a level of (probably nerdy) oversight.

[crakhamster01]

Never mind, sounds like https://ooh.directory/ that listenfaster shared is essentially this!

[listenfaster]

I like it because the submissions are easy and I think curated / QC’d. I thought Kagi was going to do more with https://kagi.com/smallweb but it’s kind of like going to https://wiby.me/ and hitting “surprise me”, which everyone should do at least once a day.

[reitoei]

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