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

  • naught101@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Yeah! StumbleUpon was cool. Something about how it tried to engender serendipity.

    Such a pity that so many other good recommendation engines died or succumbed to enshittification.

    • Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one
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      5 months ago

      Yeah I remember very clearly — they introduced advertising and the whole thing went immediately to shit 🤷