I take my list to 1001 entries and only then start pruning. I'm at half that now so I know I currently have non-awesome entries. However, during this ramp-up I collect the information needed to programmatically prune some day. A repo without recent commits might be perfect and therefore awesome. Taking some time to add more and more signal to each entry will eventually yield the metrics needed for cutting off the tail.

Expecting awesome to mean curated manually is unrealistic now. But there are plenty of opportunities to make an awesome list compelling via automation.

One of many examples is WebMCP-support. How often did you find a truly awesome, perfectly maintained list and felt overwhelmed? Then you bookmark it and get a coffee. A list with proper agent-support will allow me to cut through the non-noise. Finally the list will be actually helping me instead of being a bookmark.

There are more examples like this. Awesome Lists have a golden future as one of the knowledge resources that are not gatekept.