From Jason Kottke’s post marking the 25-year anniversary of his eponymous website:
It’s an absurd understatement to say that the web has changed a lot in the nearly 30 years since… it’s now a massive, overwhelmingly corporate entity that encompasses and organizes an ever-growing share of human information and activity… [but] the core of my own personal experience of the web has always been self-expression and making websites for individual humans to read & experience.
That web still exists, but just like in those early years, you’re going to have to discover, curate and bookmark it/subscribe to it on your own. It’s not hard, but it does need to be deliberate.
We cannot and should not expect new, more passive means of discovery (search and recommendation algorithms) to deliver the same independently published web of old.