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https://indieweb.xyz is a reddit-like link aggregator and https://www.indieforums.net/ is a forum for independent blogs. Neither is curated since theyre user submitted content, but still might be of interest to you. I think the "indie" in both of these is less directly about being IndieWeb and more about being small, independent blogs, so hopefully more likely to be "No news or tweets or blurbs, just good high quality writings"

Check out Read Something Interesting, which is that exact premise. https://readsomethinginteresting.com

isn't this effectively the curated list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

yeah but "No news or tweets or blurbs, just good high quality writings"