@tinker@gdinwiddie Webrings didn’t scale terribly well, but for certain types of blogs they worked ok. Mostly seemed to be aggregators, at least the ones I was aware of.
But year, Google is really not doing well these days. And the SEOs & the honest small advertisers are really frustrated. Maybe if things get bad enough, governments will step in, nothing else is working. :-(
How would a web ring work in this day and age? Can we put JS in our profile and have it generate the Prev/Next/Random links from our profile ring?
Didn't we use to use SSI before? Do any web servers still support that?
Yeah, searching is getting bad, particularly when it is actually for something I need to know more about, but don't know enough to manually filter out "AI" "hallucinations" and other algorithmic chaff.
if there was this large federated network built of OSS software, we could setup a "webring node/ instance".
People with a valid account on other instances could post to it with "subject area" => URL type posts. (building a open knowledge heap, not a ring)
Other users could listen to posts moderated by filter terms on what to listen to. So a person wanting news on bands would have indexes for "music" and genres.
@Sempf@tinker Unfortunately, Google is the only search engine right now where I know how to get exact word matches. (It has something called "Verbatim Mode".) DDG doesn't. :-(
@tinker@varx OK, I'll give it to you. No matter what search engine I use, no matter what punctuation I use, searching for an image of a kid using a soldering iron shows 9 year olds with Kalashnikovs.
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