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Curated directories should make a comeback.
They quickly become deluged by spam entries. That's why they disappeared/stopped being updated in the 90s.
There was always that battle with useless commercial listings, but that's not how I remember the end of dmoz. I remember Google (and other search engines to a lesser extent) just getting way too good at the time. There was also a content explosion around that era making directories just get too large, too slow to update, and difficult to use and manage.
But I still wonder if some (maybe niche) directories could work these days with the degeneration of search engines and AI slop. Actual humans curating links to useful information created or compiled by other humans sounds oddly refreshing.
i remember a time of webrings - homebrewn websites had a list of links to other homebrewn or at least reputable websites. This was before search engines were a thing. Also books with recommended addresses. ,
nowadays i often check 'awesome lists'. They are usually quite useful. (inclined reader may look up by themselves. Am lazy)
Your link was mangled, plus, they linked the top level list at the bottom of the page: https://github.com/erichs/awesome-awesome
This one isn’t on that list but is also very packed with good content: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Thanks, should be fixed now.
I linked the list at the bottom on purpose because there are links to more awesome awesome lists.
I can feel the web rings rising from the shea of history. Their time has come one again!
Reputation markets, where a circle of people I trust can maintain a whitelist of people and sites they trust
We could call it GeoTowns! …wait, no. GeoBurghs! Yes, that’s it: Welcome to GeoBurghs!
How about https://neocities.org/
You're looking for https://bubbles.town/
There's other curated directories popping up, too.
That TLD doesn't inspire confidence.
.org isn't it what it used to be, so are .ac/.edu a better bet when you don't know much about a topic?
The corrupt ICANN made judging a website by its TLD completely irrelevant these days.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2026
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