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Answer in Progress·General Knowledge & Ideashow to make the internet more interesting
TL;DR
The internet feels boring because algorithms only serve familiar content, so building human-curated websites can restore discovery.
Key Points
- 1.Algorithms killed serendipitous discovery. Social media apps only recommend content based on past behavior, meaning users never encounter genuinely new people, art, or ideas they didn't already know they'd like.
- 2.Human curation was the internet's original strength. Blogs and human-curated homepages once made discovery possible, and the creator argues nothing stops people from reviving that model today.
- 3.The creator built a human-curated link site as a practical solution. Called coolthingswefound.com, it accepts user-submitted links, uses light automation to filter bots, then stores links in a Notion database for manual curation and sharing — no algorithm involved.
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