Smallweb Subway
gusbus.space

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

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
    1·
    6 months ago

    Eh web rings were pretty lame even when they existed. There are plenty of ways to find new stuff these days. I hear they even have sites where anyone can post links and vote on which ones are good.

  • badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    I have a vision of starting a <noscript> community.

    Basically building a set of tools to help people host content with just plain HTML and CSS, using static personal hosting and organically sharing links like the pioneer days of the web.

    I think that the shift to client-side scripting, like tracking pixels, algorithmic content, infinite scrolling, targeted advertising, etc is how we ended up with the monoculture we see today.

    Just disable JavaScript on your browser and 99% of those things go sway and we can support people building personal homepages again.