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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[–] Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gonna add my voice to those calling for a foss stumbleupon

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 5 months ago

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