Maybe what we need is a search engine that penalises JS and tracker use.
Since it's on tor there's no need for evil centralization for DoS protection since it's baked into the protocol. Additionally your onion vanity name you brute forced cannot simply be taken away from you if there's political or social pressure on your registrar or above.
No, we don't need gopher. We need people to stop running third party code like it's some normal thing. We need devs to stop making websites that don't render unless you run their code.
It's really not that hard to run a hidden service. No harder than running a webserver. And everyone's home connections are fast enough now.
This is why I think that having a search engine that would search only in the 'cool' (read: old-style) web.
I don’t think that social media has “stolen” many blog readers, rather the number of people on the web increased by helluvalot.
The fact that you can share it to help others as well makes it a blog.