In this analogy, GitHub would be the library and the awesome list would be the recommended by the librarian section. If my librarian stopped curating that section and just filled it with a specific type of book no matter the quality I would stop browsing their curated section.

I miss the days when awesome lists were curated to actually have awesome stuff instead of being a list of 250+ self hostable apps.

There is no way these are all awesome. Call it the giant list of self hosted apps or something that actually makes sense.