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.
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?
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!