Is there a recommender system for blog posts or articles?

I think you're technically on one of them

That hype was 10 years ago. Most of the companies doing variation of what you’re asking disappeared.

The three major remaining are google news, apple news and reddit, all manually curated.

I don’t think there’s a lot of opportunity, users simply want free content, you can’t really monetize through ads unless you have a massive user base (ie user generated content), and acquiring content is really hard.

If you want to give it a try yourself, I recommend an algorithm à la reddit/hn and some basic clustering to avoid duplicates. You can get scores from twitter/fb instead of relying on your own users. The hard part imo remains scraping content and parse the text… well, and monetize of course.

Havent seen anything like tiktok but theres the bonobo press newsletters: https://bonobopress.com/newsletters/ which is a hand picked set of blog posts sent weekly over email. Theres also https://www.techleadhyperdigest.com/ which provides dense summaries of https://techleaddigest.net/

I haven't found one either, but this is something I would very much enjoy.

I think one possible way to implement such a system would be to keep track of what people highlight and run some data analysis on that. Opt-in, of course, if you don't feel comfortable sharing that data.

I'm sure there's lots of great essays I've missed that are just waiting to be discovered again.

Thinking About Things is what you're looking for. https://www.thinking-about-things.com

Something like Pocket's explore page?

https://getpocket.com/explore

https://readsomethinginteresting.com/

I think stumbleupon might be what you're looking for. It got moved to mix.com just btw

I use firefox folders.