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

  • chip@feddit.rocks
    10·
    4 months ago

    There has to be a cultural shift as well. It’s not the early 2000s anymore where a substantial portion of internet users could tinker around their desktop computers. I recently got fiber at home and we’re locked behind CGNAT. I could look for a solution for myself since I grew up opening ports on my router, but imagine someone who grew up with bubble-wrapped smartphones trying to navigate their way through that bs.

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

      You’re not wrong, but here we are, talking open source and GPL licences. If you can make a game portal work, or the web in general, it’s viable, your ISP is a choke point though, agreed. Was more talking about an easy stack like the 'arrs, but for webrings, just an idea…

      • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        4 months ago

        At least now we have options like Pikapods where you can just throw a containerized server up cheap. Even people who might be overwhelmed by a VM can do that.

    • marx2k@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      I also just got fiber from AT&T. I’m pretty grateful that their gateway/router can just offload all traffic to my own router and a t as just a dumb gateway. Right now I use duckdns to just public host a subsonic server for when I’m in the car or out and about but it’s been very pain free.

      I read up a little on cgnat but can you tell me what issues you face? I’m curious.

      Never mind… read up on it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

      I guess the alternative would be routing everything through a static ip providing vpn