Comment by easygenes

I was an active participant of the 90s web, and in fact a lead editor and forum moderator for a popular turn of the millennium news site, so I understand the frustration you're sharing.

That said, I'd argue it's not the "cozy web" that's out of control, but instead the "dark forest" that has forced the creation of the cozy web. The cozy web is the only bastion of the internet left where there's still some semblance of the pay it forward community aspect of the early web.

Yes, it is at the cost of not being indexed, but it's the only way of having the genuine sorts of conversations and creation with people of shared interests that typified the early web now.