So maybe, in the vein of ad blockers and subscribing to blocklists, we need host finders that allow us to subscribe to host lookup lists that we trust. A few simple rules for resolving conflicts (list priorities? show all options along with source list ident? dunno) and an equally simple API.

@djsundog

Reminds me of the old Usenet days, of finding a host/service that both kept the groups in which one had interest and provided a long, long history instead of the past sixty days.

@thraeryn yeah, good point. it's very much the same vibe, and is probably a good indicator of part of what it is I feel like I'm missing "these days". There was a certain amount of "concentrating" of communities that occurred because of the resource limits that made "infinitely huge" communities impractical before the days of ubiquitous fast links and cheap storage.