> This Good Internet Stuff may take effort to find.
I think this is the crux of it. It’s hard to find and doesn’t just appear, so it feels gone. But if we think back, that was always the case. Good websites were never easy to find. That’s why Google was such an important tool when it released. It’s why Yahoo’s homepage was covered in links. It’s what link aggregators were so popular and “social bookmarking” became a thing. All of these were efforts to surface the good parts of the internet to a wider audience.
Today we have projects like Kagi’s small web and a few others trying to do that work again. However, people need to seek it out, like they did in the past. It will never just show up in a feed, and that’s kind of the point.
al_borland•1h ago
I think this is the crux of it. It’s hard to find and doesn’t just appear, so it feels gone. But if we think back, that was always the case. Good websites were never easy to find. That’s why Google was such an important tool when it released. It’s why Yahoo’s homepage was covered in links. It’s what link aggregators were so popular and “social bookmarking” became a thing. All of these were efforts to surface the good parts of the internet to a wider audience.
Today we have projects like Kagi’s small web and a few others trying to do that work again. However, people need to seek it out, like they did in the past. It will never just show up in a feed, and that’s kind of the point.