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submitted 5 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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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago

You might be overthinking it, or I might be underthinking it.

When I hear "webring" I think of a simple list of sites, curated by the ring creator. And all members have a badge on their site, complete with a few nav buttons.

It was never broke, why fix it?

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

It was never broke, why fix it?

Totally fair! I don't claim to know what I'm talking about! I'm just riffing on what I suspect would work for me, but also motivated by what I feel is a relatively urgent need to create some robust and diverse human curation of the internet. So in a way I'm not really interested in remaking web rings, but more coming from the perspective of what else can be done with the same general idea along side webrings.

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