You may be interested in a browser extension I launched at the end of last year. It keeps track of RSS feeds as you browse, helping you stay connected to the small web sites you discover.

https://github.com/robalexdev/blog-quest

My buddy and I are building an index with a category interface like this one (and indieseek.xyz).

We index anything we consider authentic and contentful, but our category interface (mostly) consists of small web pages. Happy to hear any feedback.

Link: https://outerweb.org/explore-sorted

Strange, I looked around and couldn’t find a single contentful or authentic site in your index, rather the opposite.

I appreciate the observation, there's automated and manual curation that goes into this so there's definitely corpo stuff that shows up. We probably made things more difficult by wanting to include mainstream sources but heavily favor indie ones.

We have substantial lists of approved and denied domains so the authentic content is definitely there but it's not visible from a few clicks off of the categories page, we have more work to do.

https://marginalia-search.com/ is a great way to find small indie blogs

Agreed. I also like the small web lens in kagi. Helps me to search through and find interesting stuff to read and follow.

+1 for Kari. You’ll find smaller, less SEO’d sites favored in their search results.

From https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/noads.html:

“Kagi Search is an ad-free search engine that will actively down-rank sites with lots of ads and trackers in the results and promote sites with little or no advertising”

Scary to see how many people replied to LLM slop without realising it.