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submitted 3 months ago by mrpalmer16@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

You're not wrong, but here we are, talking open source and GPL licences. If you can make a game portal work, or the web in general, it's viable, your ISP is a choke point though, agreed. Was more talking about an easy stack like the 'arrs, but for webrings, just an idea...

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

At least now we have options like Pikapods where you can just throw a containerized server up cheap. Even people who might be overwhelmed by a VM can do that.

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