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What modern alternatives for webrings are there?
After the debacle with Reddit, Twitter, et al some of my friends an I decided to stop posting to corporate walled gardens and instead focus on sharing and co-creating.
I remember reading about modern alternatives for WebRings two years ago, but can't for the life of me find them or remember what they were called! Tiny web? TinyRing? SmallWeb? Does this ring a bell for some of you?
Alternatively, I'd appreciate if you could share ideas and approaches to alternative/indy syndication or agreggation.
Thanks !
EDIT: ding ding ding https://indieweb.org/Micro.blog
Webrings are still out there. Here are a few:
|https://www.ringsurf.com/ring/coldwar/ |Cold War |
|https://www.homebrewcpuring.org |Homebrew Computers |
|http://geekring.net |webring for geeks of all sorts|
|https://mxb.dev/blog/webring-kit/ |A Webring Kit |
|http://homebrewcpu.com |Homebuilt CPUs WebRing |
|https://xn--sr8hvo.ws |An IndieWeb Webring |
|https://emreed.net/LowTech_Directory |Low tech webring directory |
|https://weirdwidewebring.net/ |Weird Wide Webring |
|https://webring.stavros.io |Tech makers webring |
|http://www.calcinfo.com |Calculator Collecting Ring |
First posting with special formatting. Sorry if it comes out ugly.
Just to add a very thematic bit to this list, there are a quite a few "tilde" webrings out there like tilde.club and tilde.town which are essentially communities with shared access to a Unix system just messing around. Visiting these sites definitely feels like taking a trip to the "old" internet where people would just put together little pages to share stuff they liked or something they were doing.
Last time I checked some folks organized a website with a bunch of these spaces, so there's definitely still active interest.
Thank you !!
I'll go through these 👍🏼🤠
Are you thinking of IndieWeb's webring by any chance?
I've gone on an exploration trip to the old web looking for webrings some time ago. Unfortunately it's mostly a graveyard these days, and I haven't seen many solutions for discovery for present day sites.
You might be also interested in Marginalia, a search engine for smaller sites.
edit: changed the webring link to point to the website directory as it's a bit hidden on the front page.
oh man! Yes it was !
I didn't recognize it at first because the style of the page threw me off, but that's it !! I just found what I remembered searching a bit ! https://indieweb.org/Micro.blog
Thanks !
Unfortunately not, it was an approach to metadata and if I remember correctly a small collection of suggested Javascript snippets to permanently link with certain other websites!
Thank you for the link though :D
Me too! But mostly on the e-zine side of things :) Let me know in case you want to cross-check notes.
Looks interesting!
In addition to the ones here I can recommend https://webring.xxiivv.com, run by one of the people behind 100R / Hundred Rabbits
And https://hotlinewebring.club/
And for "small web" fans, these
https://no-js.club/members/
250kb.club (currently down)
https://512kb.club/
https://1mb.club/
I love Marginalia Search which (like Tildes) is written by a single developer. There was an article in the New Yorker about it!
Another site of interest from a Reddit post I saved years ago: neocities.org
It's kind a a small geocities revival.
I haven't heard the term "web ring" in eons.
I loved the blogosphere. I remember what web rings were something different, but that many people simply had referral links to other blogs with the same subjects. Kind of sucked for my blog, because I posted all over the place, but I did find some interesting blogs on particular subjects that way.
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