I am not exactly sure if it was my comment itself which helped in it but no matter what, this is exactly what I was talking about and I am so glad that you made it!
Really awesome work! Definitely gonna add my blog site into a few of these and just gonna scroll it, ah this feels so good, i really appreciate your effort and I hope more people share even more indexes and it becomes an even more complete index of all indexes and we preserve the spirit of the open internet! This feels really good to me! :-)
Ah great, well I am happy that it was within the same discussion and I am happy that I could help reinforce a positive change on the internet and so thanks for making this website because this is exactly what I wanted/wished when I had written that comment :-D
I am right now thinking of connecting all these indexes within the list as much as I can into rss files and going to hopefully tinker around with some rss with all these indexes listed within your website and this has certainly brought me a bit of hope regarding the open internet if enough people use such indexes or index of indexes :-D
Edit: The rss section within your website has been really helpful in finding websites which are doing what I am talking about and so many other things, its been so good delving in these things and I find it really nice :-)
Don't know where your colors and style come from, but imo you're doing fine on that front.
Nice project also! Bookmarked.
In the same vein; I stumbled upon Wander (pun intended) by browsing a HN post from yesterday. I really like that take on discovery of smaller curated websites.
https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme
I'm always amazed when people go through the trouble of adding a light/dark theme switcher rather than just respecting the user's system preference with `prefers-color-scheme`[0].
You can do both. And then you help out people who don't know that they have a meaningful system preference (or maybe all the other sites they visit don't honour it, or maybe their web browser isn't picking it up for some reason).
I love this so much. I believe there is a sea of valuable blogs being buried in google search indexing weird SEO rules, and whatever crawling the AI systems are doing. We need to preserve the actual human generated content that predates AI. Wishing you huge success, thank you!
I maintain a similar index-of-indexes but it's intentionally non-curated, restricted to indexes that use the OPML format, and uses autodiscovery to expand the list. The site needs some work, but it's up to 356 indexes.
I'd recommend looking at anything with "planet" in the name, there are a bunch of tech communities that manage community feeds and they are high quality. There are also a ton of personal blogroll recommendations via micro.blog too.
I also have a separate list of my favorite parts of the internet I plan to eventually turn into something like this: https://wilderness.land/ (my inspo)
This is a tangent, but what I'd really like to see is for a "movement" of sorts where site owners explicitly only allow Kagi* as the only crawler for their site.
A way of saying "you know what, I've seen what Google has wrought, but they had some good ideas and utility at the start so I'd like Kagi to still crawl my site but no one else".
I don't know if that's even technically possible.
* I say Kagi here since they're the most prominent one I know of that are thinking about this problem. I am aware that that they too can change in the future.
I don't understand why you'd want to advocate for creating a new monopoly. Having a rich, diverse market of competing search engines would be the ideal.
That's part of my point. We already tried a rich, diverse market of competing search engines and it still ended up in a monopoly. In fact I would argue it was inevitable.
At least this way the site owners get to choose their monopoly master. So in a way it's democratized. If Google can be blocked successfully (big IF), then Kagi can as well if they change their tune.
this is great. Google has a vendetta against small personal blogs and is one of the original reasons why I fell in love with Google was because I got to discover all these indie publishers. as much as I love sub stack and Reddit these platforms along with all the garbage and slop is pushing us down.