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Let's bring back the webring. (gusbus.space)

submitted 5 months ago by mrpalmer16@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Back in the day the best way to find cool sites when you were on a cool site was to click next in the webring. In this age of ailing search engines and confidently incorrect AI, it is time for the webring to make a comeback.

This person has given his the code to get started: Webring

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[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago

The idea comes up again and again on the fediverse. It feels ripe for some app/platform to kinda nail it.

I’m not sure this is it or even something that does exactly the old web ring thing. I think a simple enough system for the human curation of web pages in a standardised way that can easily be consumed and aggregated would go a long way though. The fediverse feels like its close to something.

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

There is also Gemini protocol!

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

I'm aware of it (and while not being super enthused about it, I can my personal interest growing over time as the internet keeps tracking the way it is).

But how does it help with a page recommendation system? Is there a strong culture of that sort of thing on Gemini?

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

in gemini you typically find pages using Antenna (gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/) here you would find different blog all across gemini. also you could go to bbs(gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/) to discuss stuff of variety of range.