Comment by RetroTechie
2 years ago
Maybe the time is right to bring back manually curated lists of useful/interesting websites. Webrings, category-sorted directories with an entry 'portal' & similar.
These mostly disappeared as the web's content size exploded, maintaining those directories became too much work, and search engines were just so much easier / better to find what you're looking for.
These days: ad & tracking infested bloated trash everywhere, and search engine's usefulness have declined. Putting the few "small web" gems out there in a curated directory, might just be easier than trawling through heaps & heaps of junk (or in near-future: have AI assistant do that for you).
A kind of white-listing, if you will.
I remember a text mode BBC site a la https://lite.cnn.io and https://text.npr.org. Now it's not any more.
Gemini with gemini://gemi.dev/waffle.cgi opening the full BBC URL (with https:// on front) would be the closest to that.
Edit:
gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/links?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews
Try Lagrange in a PC or Android and open this URL.
> Maybe the time is right to bring back manually curated lists of useful/interesting websites.
HN and other link-aggregation forums are more or less a crowdsourced version of that.