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Cool but this will grow unworkable as the number of entries increases and will require some sort of filtering / searching.

Even pure signal can be overwhelming these days when so much good stuff exists.

Which brings us to the (as far as I know unsolved) question of supporting large scale discovery of the web without drifting into enshittification.

Some sort of decentralized index that will be distributed in a torrent-like manner might work but that requires curation too: Who and with what criteria can add an entry etc.

Bottom line is that the walled gardens did not exist, they evolved because the original web was missing critical components of usability. They exploited a vacuum.

To fill the vacuum with something more benevolent we need to go back and solve these problems. The rest will be history.




> that requires curation too: Who and with what criteria can add an entry etc.

IMHO that's the beauty of it. Sometimes I want to be hit with everything the web has to offer.

But some other times I do want curated lists of links organized by category with opinionated criteria for inclusion.


Yeah, I am still thinking how to evolve this into a useful, yet minimalist design as it grows. I am quite inspired by high-density websites (things that were de-facto in the late 90s), so will have to see how to incorporate that.

That being said, the meta-point about at-scale discovery is astute - it's largely unsolved for personal sites/digital gardens. And I certainly don't want to be the bottleneck long-term. Will have to think through a solution as more content gets added.




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