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
I love this idea, the back button on browsers feels like it exists because of webrings
Kagi is also experimenting with small web
Man I wanna like Kagi but I keep reading batshit things from its founder
Be like him, but don’t copy the batshit.
Man what a trip, felt like I was hopping around the old web again.
Stumbleupon was fun.
I miss old web shit.
Ninety zeros dot com was one of the Internet’s weirdest best things.
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.
There is also Gemini protocol!
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?
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.
Man, their website is pretty off-putting. Where’s the get-started/dive-in type page? How do I use the thing?
Iirc it’s Geminispace.info
I could be wrong since I only visit their Gemini capsule.
I’m in a few webrings! https://wetnoodle.org they’re under the navigation menu towards the bottom
Maia Arson Crimew, one of my favorite hackers, is in a webring https://maia.crimew.gay
Oh man that site looks just like the internet before it started to suck.
What would be really cool would be an open source, federated version of DMOZ
Yes, please!
hexbear’s trans comm just hooked into one! super cool
Couldn’t agree more
This is so cool!
Is the StumbleUpon thing not something Mozilla could do with Pocket?
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I can’t believe anyone did this. It’s totally random (within pool of participants). There’s a reason it went away. Is the equivalent of “I’m feeling lucky” but with a smaller pool. I guess I’d you like random it’s fine I guess?
You didn’t have a good experience with it, many of us did have some food experiences with it.
But it made going out on the Internet interesting. Today I’m not sure if its less or more risky to view a sketchy site, is it more risky now with ransom ware, data scraypers, and such.
Ide consider viruses to be less of a risk today, but my results probably vary
My experience was that those webrings often worth checking out if you didnt have something specific you were looking for today.
Its not the same at all, but theres a sense of my experience when i suddenly realize im on wikipedia and have opened 50+ tabs after I’ve finished what i was reading. Then just going through the tabs you have open
