[kortex]

Thought provoking, but i dont understand what making an incompatible protocol would do. As soon as you have a machine-processable protocol (kind of a tautology), you can build bridge layers.

Sounds like an XY problem. What op wants is high barrier of entry and high curation. That exists already, but by virtue of high barrier of entry, they are hard to find :p. Discords, matrix, webrings, weird little websites.