Kagi's "Small Web" offers a handpicked collection of more than 30,000 non-commercial, human-authored websites, including personal blogs, webcomics, and independent videos.
They have a small web ‘Lens’ in their search (you can limit search to specific categories), so you’d need to subscribe for that. Although, with an account, you get 100 searches/month for free.
This sounds great. You still need a subscription to use it? I may be the thing that finally convinces me to get one.
I don’t think you need a subscription. I just tried from another browser where I’m not logged in and it works.
https://kagi.com/smallweb/
They have a small web ‘Lens’ in their search (you can limit search to specific categories), so you’d need to subscribe for that. Although, with an account, you get 100 searches/month for free.
They also have a Fediverse lens: