I don't want to just stick to one or two little corners of the web, I want to peruse and find corners that interest me or have information/something that's usef

I don't want to just stick to one or two little corners of the web, I want to peruse and find corners that interest me or have information/something that's useful to me. When too much of what I find is AI slop or part of some SEO-maxxed marketing funnel, I become less likely to search for stuff or take a chance on reading something in general. Conversely, web operators generally feel differently about freely and openly serving actual human readers vs robots, both because of their differing motives (the robot might index me or just be learning from me, the human might actually talk to me or share me) and scale (I can afford to host a website serving all my real human readers but not all the robots on the Internet). I actually think that gatekeepers benefit a lot from the erosion of trust in the web. They handle all the hard parts of keeping your shit up and accessible by real people without bots taking it down, and can actually verify that people are who they say they are. Personally, to me the whole point of "the web" is that it's way bigger and more open than a little cozy corner of people I already trust, or a handful of walled gardens. And I think this problem is really quite hard to solve without just creating another walled garden.