This is so, so exciting. I hope HN takes inspiration and adds a similar flag. :)
I appreciate Kagi's community-driven approach. The open Small Web list[0] is invaluable. Applying a smallweb filter[1] on HN brings a breath of fresh air to the frontpage.
The end result is that there's a lot of "small web" stuff that doesn't show up. Looking at my bookmarks, I think 90% of them are in the "small web" category in spirit, but maybe 10% have any chance of appearing on the Kagi list.
If you don't mind, it'd be cool to take a look at your bookmark domains so that I could potentially augment the filter on my site. If you're interested, my email is in bio.
I generally close the tab when the inevitable "Subscribe for the newsletter. Almost half of the world has subscribed, c'mon!" overlay appears.
I just want to read the thing, not to fill my inbox with newsletters from various blogs. We have RSS for that!
It’s a platform and social network of sorts, rather than a neutral hosting provider and it’s too often used in a way that’s inauthentically commercial IMO.
And the policy already allows wordpress.com or blogspot.com (the latter is probably mostly spam nowadays, with a few holdouts who have been using it for 20 years). Also note that Small Web allows YouTube channels under 400k subscribers (!). So it's really not that clean-cut.
Do you mean the entire .wordpress.com and .blogspot.com are allowed as per the grandparent comment implies, or just individual blogs may or may no be allowed, exactly like substack?