IME, this is just about the opposite of true.

I recently did a deep dive of an (allegedly) human-curated selection of 40K blogs containing 600K posts. I got the list from Kagi’s Small Web Index [1]. I haven’t published anything about it yet, but the takeaway is that nostalgia for the IndieWeb is largely misplaced.

The overwhelming majority of was 2010s era “content marketing” SEO slop.

The next largest slice was esoteric nostalgia content. Like, “Look at these antique toys/books/movies/etc!”. You’d be shocked at the volume of this still being written by retirees on Blogger (no shade, it’s good to have a hobby, but goddamn there are a lot of you).

The slice of “things an average person might plausibly care to look at” was vanishingly small.

There are no spam filters, mods, or ways to report abuse when you run your content mill on your own domain.

Like you, I was somewhat surprised by this result. I have to assume this is little more than a marketing ploy by Kagi to turn content producers who want clicks into Kagi customers. That list is not suited for any other purpose I can discern.

[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb