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This is the sort of silly and smart and insanely-well researched bit of fun that was the norm during the blogging era of ~ 2000-2010 before the social media era really set in. I miss it.

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I think we are actually past the social media era (or at least we are past its peak).

Btw, the total absolute amount of new good blog content is probably not any lower than during the golden age you harken back to. (And of course all the old material is mostly still there, thanks also to various archives.) The relative amount might have gone down, but for your and my individual content consumption absolute amounts matter more.

Yes, but how to find it? There are no longer "web rings" and search engines aren't designed to highlight blogs above rich media content.

Agora Rd and similar small forum sites are still there, like the hole in the wall restaurants that people have to choose to go to instead of McDonald's. Prices are higher, algorithms are worse, but there's genuine connection there.

I find mine mostly via links from other blogs I already read, via recommendations from friends, and via submissions to the likes of HN.

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