cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18299168

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

  • @badcommandorfilename
    2•2 months ago

    Yeah, this isn’t supposed to be a silver bullet, it’s more about democratizing the internet more.

    I think that

    • Low barrier to entry
    • Focus on users owning their own content
    • Privacy is more important than advanced functionality

    I.e. if you want to start a blog, it should be easy own it and host it yourself rather than surrending your content to Twitter and Facebook. Make it accessible to others who also want to surf the web without being targeted and tracked.