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Let's bring back the webring. (gusbus.space)

submitted 4 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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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 17 points 4 months ago

It will happen out of necessity once LLMs make search engines useless. Bookmarks and human-curated content will be the only way to find stuff.

It's already affecting small businesses worldwide, who aren't being discovered anymore by searches in their local area.

this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024

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