About once a month or so, someone in my feed will come up with the idea to create a website that serves as a human-curated directory of the web and I'm like, ah we have reached full circle. We're now reinventing the Open Directory Project.
(Which I think is a good idea, but it's interesting to see people come back to this idea over and over again).
@zalasur (1) where are the little ones aimed at particular domains? (2) what would it take for directories to succeed today? and (3) wasn't ODP killed by corruption? (e.g. SEO spammers got many of the editor slots, the others didn't stay active)
@UP8 Technically, ODP was killed by the owner, AOL (or whatever was left of it), but yeah I'm willing to bet that part of the problem with maintaining that list is that SEO gamers and, increasingly, AI spam will make it onto the list despite the most diligent of efforts to keep it clean of that corruption.
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