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

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    5 months ago

    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.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        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?

        • whoareu@lemmy.ca
          2·
          5 months ago

          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.

      • naught101@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Man, their website is pretty off-putting. Where’s the get-started/dive-in type page? How do I use the thing?