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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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[-] chip@feddit.rocks 10 points 5 months ago

There has to be a cultural shift as well. It's not the early 2000s anymore where a substantial portion of internet users could tinker around their desktop computers. I recently got fiber at home and we're locked behind CGNAT. I could look for a solution for myself since I grew up opening ports on my router, but imagine someone who grew up with bubble-wrapped smartphones trying to navigate their way through that bs.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 7 points 5 months ago

Website hosting is still a thing. Not everything needs to be self hosted.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 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 5 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.

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I also just got fiber from AT&T. I'm pretty grateful that their gateway/router can just offload all traffic to my own router and a t as just a dumb gateway. Right now I use duckdns to just public host a subsonic server for when I'm in the car or out and about but it's been very pain free.

I read up a little on cgnat but can you tell me what issues you face? I'm curious.

Never mind.. read up on it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

I guess the alternative would be routing everything through a static ip providing vpn