While the Web, or at least the easily searchable/findable part of it, is a bit of a mess. Youtube seems to still work surprisingly well, the bit of spam and bot

While the Web, or at least the easily searchable/findable part of it, is a bit of a mess. Youtube seems to still work surprisingly well, the bit of spam and bot content that there is, is easy to avoid and hardly ever a real problem. When looking for a howto, review or something, Youtube has become the go-to place, text-based Web is rarely as useful. I think the core issue here isn't so much the bot content itself, but that we use bots to present the Internet to us. There is no human in the loop. There is no way to downrate the trash or upvote the good stuff. No way to follow a creator (bookmarks haven't improved for like 25 years). And no way to just limit the search to curated content. I think to dig us out of this whole we need to stop treating the Web as just some junkyard of random content that we search through and put some organisation on top, as in have a way to 'publish' something on the Web in the same way a Youtube video can be published (i.e. unique id, immutable, automatically archived, author/channel name attached to it, comments, etc.). Youtube is of course by no means perfect, but it has a lot of properties that I'd wish the rest of the Web had. When it comes to Twitter and TikTok, a large part of their problem is that they aren't even a real part of the Web. They exist in their own space and don't hyperlink with the rest of Web. So you are forced to navigate them in whatever ways their company forces you too.